Robin Morgan

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Robin Morgan (29 January 1941 - )

Morgan, a feminist author, journalist, editor, lecturer, organizer, atheist and activist, was born in New York City. As she notes in her memoir, Saturday's Child, "Saturday's child has to work for a living." Robin began at age two, as a tot model. She had her own radio show by age four, then acted in the role of Dagmar on the popular series, "Mama," in the 1940s and 1950s. She left showbiz to write and became a founder and leader of the contemporary feminist movement.

Morgan's columns and articles for Ms. appeared from 1974-1988. She was editor in chief of Ms. for four years and is its International consulting editor. Her anthology, Sisterhood is Powerful, came out in 1972, followed by Sisterhood is Globall (1984) and Sisterhood is Forever (2003). A distinguished poet, Morgan has written about witchhunts, The Burning Times.

Morgan has traveled widely as a feminist activist, scholar, journalist, and lecturer. She is a Patron of Feminist Dalit (the "Untouchables"), in Nepal. She is an honorary member of Pan Arab Feminist Solidarity Association and an honorary member of Israeli Feminists Against Occupation. She is a cofounder of the Feminist Women's Health Network, the Feminist Writers' Guild, of Media Women and the National Network of Rape Crisis Centers. Her The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism - The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism tells the personal story of her travel to refugee camps in the Middle East, with a post 9/11 introduction and afterword. A recipient of many feminist and other awards, she was named Freethought Heroine 2005 by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

In Ms. (Fall, 2004) she wrote,

• When Attorney General John Ashcroft repeatedly invokes religion, the Founders must be picketing in their graves. They were a mix of freethinkers, atheists, Christians, agnostics, Freemasons and Deists. . . .
• . . . the Founders were, after all, revolutionaries. Their passion - especially regarding secularism--glows in the documents they forged and in their personal words.

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