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Catherine Epstein

Catherine Epstein lives in Brooklyn, New York, and hails from suburban Massachusetts. She has worked as a production assistant with WNYC and as an instructor with San Francisco’s OutLoud Radio. She is a reader for American Short Fiction and is an educator with the Museum of the Moving Image. She majored in English at Vassar College, and wrote her thesis on banned books in American public schools.

Recent Posts by Catherine Epstein

Exclusive: Taking On Big Ag—Is Monsanto Useful?

September 1, 2011 – 12:21 am

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EXCLUSIVE: Fairness for Defendants Who Survive Domestic Violence

June 21, 2011 – 9:26 am

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EXCLUSIVE Celebrating Reel Women: The First Annual Athena Film Festival

February 9, 2011 – 11:26 am

ShareBy Catherine Epstein Two advocates for women in film launch a cultural institution in New York City.

EXCLUSIVE Documenting Late-Term Abortion

November 19, 2010 – 11:56 am

ShareBy Catherine Epstein Journalist Catherine Epstein talks to two documentarians about their film on late-term abortion and their motives for creating it. One afternoon in late October, filmmakers Martha Shane and Lana Wilson sat at Shane’s kitchen table, creating dozens of homemade buttons that read “Trust Women,” the working title of their documentary. The film [...]

EXCLUSIVE Power Play: Reversing the Recession’s Toll on Women

October 12, 2010 – 11:12 am

ShareBy Catherine Epstein Influential advocates met last week in New York to address the economic security of women and their families. Journalist Catherine Epstein reports on their deliberations—and the people they hope will join the conversation. Since the onset of the recession in 2008, the number of unemployed American women has risen by 2.8 million. [...]

EXCLUSIVE Feminism and the 14-Year-Old: Tavi Gevinson Says “Do What You Want”

October 6, 2010 – 8:35 am

ShareBy Catherine Epstein Fresh from covering New York Fashion Week and being profiled in The New Yorker, 14-year-old blogger Tavi Gevinson talks to journalist (and former WMC intern) Catherine Epstein. Tavi Gevinson started high school this fall. She also runs a fashion blog, Style Rookie, that gets a million and a half hits a month. [...]

“Send your jokes in”: Women Comedy Writers at the Paley Center

May 21, 2010 – 11:58 am

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Glenn Beck: Still Sexist

May 20, 2010 – 5:34 pm

ShareOn today’s Glenn Beck Program, the prolific host took aim at photos of First Lady Michelle Obama in today’s Drudge Report. The Drudge caption reads: “Sex in the City!” – because, I guess, Carrie Bradshaw & Co. also wear nice dresses and looked really good sometimes.

Facebook, Justice, and Badass Deanna: Free Press Summit

May 20, 2010 – 5:28 pm

ShareThe conversations at last week’s Free Press Summit were charged with the energy and innovation that are the hallmarks of folks on the cutting edge of media. Journalists, policy makers, activists, and philanthropists discussed everything from Net Neutrality to Facebook to the transforming demographics of our country. Tracy Van Slyke, Progressive Women’s Voices alumna and [...]

Laura Bush on Elena Kagan Nom: “It’s great”

May 18, 2010 – 1:52 pm

ShareGo progressive once, props to you. Go progressive twice and uh, props to you again!  Go progressive THREE TIMES, and someone might mistake you for a liberal. So has gone the trajectory of Laura Bush in the past few weeks, as revelations from her memoir out the former First Lady as not only pro-choice, but [...]