The Library of Congress hosts a screening and conversation with Steinem tied to the theatrical production "Gloria: A Life."
On March 13, 2019, the Library of Congress, in partnership with filmmaker and theater director Julie Taymor, presented an event centered on Gloria: A Life, a theatrical production dramatizing Gloria Steinem's life and activism. The event included a screening or presentation related to the production followed by a public conversation with Steinem herself.
The play, which had opened Off-Broadway in 2018, combined biographical narrative with communal "talking circle" discussions after each performance, reflecting the consciousness-raising practices central to second-wave feminist organizing that Steinem herself had long championed.
Hosting the event at the Library of Congress—one of the nation's premier cultural and historical institutions—signaled formal institutional recognition of Steinem's life story as a significant part of American history worthy of preservation and public discussion, alongside other figures whose papers and legacies are archived and studied there.
The event gave Steinem, then 85 years old, an opportunity to reflect publicly on more than five decades of activism, journalism, and organizing, situating her personal narrative within the broader arc of the American women's movement for a new generation of audiences engaging with her legacy through theater and public dialogue.