Who Are You Lifting? A Reflection on Legacy, Loss, and the Athena Award

By Juli Metzger— MUNCIE, IN—We lost Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton just eight days apart. It’s been a hard stretch to sit with. Two women, two completely different playbooks, and yet both gave us a masterclass in how to live. Parton was a songwriter first and foremost: thousands of songs across six decades, her words doing the work of getting a feeling exactly right, over and over. But she didn’t stop at the page. She backed that gift with her time and her treasure, in scholarships, in books mailed to children for free, in jobs. Steinem was a writer too,…

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