Ms. Magazine editor Robin Morgan in 1992: ‘There are no issues that are not women’s issues’

I doubt that back in 1972, when I bought the first issue of Ms. Magazine—whose cover featured the iconic declaration “Wonder Woman for President”—I could’ve imagined that a bit more than 20 years later I’d sit down with that magazine’s then-editor-in-chief Robin Morgan to talk about the state of the women’s movement.

At the time, she was promoting her book The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches, 1968-1992.

Few of my archival interviews through the years resonate as much with the current day as this one does—including Morgan’s comments about the downsides of advertiser-compromised news media.

Listening takes me back to a time that was in many ways hopeful—and conjures a parallel universe we never made. And although some of those hopes have yet to materialize, Morgan’s words then suggest we may yet find our way back.

I hope you find this interview, presented here for the first time since its broadcast on WNUA-FM in Chicago on Dec. 13, 1992, as engaging as I do. Hear here.

Shortly after hearing this resurrected recording, Morgan dropped me an email declaring it “a thoughtful, intelligent interview … certainly one of the best interviews I’ve ever done.”

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