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DIVERGENT MINDS | 1/11/24 | Episode 029 

This week on #DivergentMinds – we’re thrilled to welcome Caroline Rothstein to the show!

Caroline is an internationally touring and award-winning writer, poet, performer, educator, and documentary filmmaker. Her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, Narratively, Hey Alma, and elsewhere.

Dr. Chapman and Dr. Sood talk with Caroline about how becoming a social media content creator helped her overcome her personal issues while, at the same time, enabled her to help others.

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FLOWERS FOR LINDA | 12/1/22 | A Ritual Is a Container with Caroline Rothstein 

Losing her brother unexpectedly as a teen, multidisciplinary writer, storyteller and performer Caroline Rothstein leaned on Jewish ritual to survive. The poetry of her faith now finds its way into every area of her life—inspired by death. In this heart to heart, Caroline introduces us to her brother Josh in his playful spirit form, and she shares two profoundly moving poems that transmute grief into powerful testimonial art.

CAMPFIRE AND COLOR WARS | 5/26/22 | Self Expression Through Spoken Word Poetry With Caroline Rothstein

Poet, writer, and performer Caroline Rothstein joins the podcast to revisit her time growing up at Camp Walden in Maine, and discusses her transformation from quiet, shy kid to loud, boisterous show lead. Plus we discuss first kisses, going to camp far from home, and much much more. Don’t waste a minute, take a listen!

VOX ATL | 1/5/21 | Self Expression Through Spoken Word Poetry With Caroline Rothstein

Caroline Rothstein, an internationally touring writer, spoken word poet and performer, spoke to a group of Atlanta teens about your own personal gods, Judaism in today, self-love, anti-semitism, and reincarnation, inspiring us to take her words into our lives and realize a greater truth in the world we face as young and Jewish women.

Rothstein has performed poetry, recited speeches, and led workshops at colleges, schools, community organizations, and other performance spaces. She was able to present to us in an interactive, non-toxic, yet inspiring space — even on Zoom.

Last fall, we had an amazing opportunity to get to know Rothstein prior to the JumpSpark Strong Women Fellowship full-group meeting. We learned how to effectively interact in a safe space on topics she planned to bring to the Jewish teens across Atlanta who come together (now virtually) to empower, learn from, and educate each other so we could take her experiences to benefit our own.

BUSINESS SCHOOL FOR WRITERS | 10/27/20 | Episode 12: Writing as a Bridge Between Political Oppositions with Caroline Rothstein

How can writing help you survive during political turmoil and have difficult conversations with your family and friends during this time of social unrest? Listen in to hear Lauren and Caroline talk about bridging the political divide through writing.

In this episode, Lauren is having a special and rather deep conversation with Caroline Rothstein.

Caroline is an internationally acclaimed writer, poet, journalist, and performer, based in New York City. She and Lauren met years ago via Twitter, and ever since this happened, Lauren has been delighted by the way this magnificent artist puts her thoughts into words, making the online space what our host describes as “a bearable place” thanks to the thoughtful input she shares and her storytelling abilities.

Today, you’ll hear Lauren and Caroline talk about the challenges of being an artist in a capitalist world, the psychology of being a writer, Caroline’s activism through the written word, how creativity and art have helped heal her inner child, activism, social justice, and so much more!

LEADERFOLK | 6/2020 | Episode 11: Caroline Rothstein

Caroline Rothstein, internationally touring performer, poet, and Jewish leader, speaks with us about creating cultures of consent within our Jewish communities.

LOVE EXTREMIST RADIO | 11/4/2019 | Trauma, Art and Divine, Soulful Love

Every human needs love and acceptance to survive, yet we all seem to have a different definition of what love actually is. This podcast seeks to explore various definitions of love through storytelling and conversations with visionary thinkers, artists, activists, leaders and explorers. We will investigate love through 3 frames: love of self, love in partnership and love in the collective and these episodes will seek to uncover important nuggets of love that will spread into the radio waves and beyond.

LMCTVProductions | 7/30/2019 | Curious About Caroline Rothstein #10

TC Jewfolk | 4/25/2019 | Poet/Performer/Artist Caroline Rothstein Coming to Twin Cities

Caroline Rothstein wears many hats. Whether she’s a freelance journalist, poet, artist or performer, she learned that a 9-to-5 job was never going to be her thing.

“I learned early on that I was built to baseline around my art,” said Rothstein.

Rothstein will be bringing her art to the Twin Cities on May 8 and 9 with a variety of opportunities to both see Rothstein perform and participate in workshops with someone that Lady Gaga called “a very inspiring woman.”

“I’ve been an artist since I was a kid, and from there, I feel pretty 50-50 as a writer/performer,” Rothstein said. “If I’m performing too much, I crave writing. If I’m writing too much, I desperately crave the stage.”

KUSI News | 3/21/2019 | Caroline Rothstein To Perform Poetry & Spoken Word

Well known poet and spoken word artist, Caroline Rothstein is performing in San Diego n Thursday.

Rothstein will perform at the Garfield Theatre in the Lawrence Family JCC at 8 p.m.

Rothstein’s work has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, The New Yorker and Nylon Magazine, which Nylon said, “Rothstein’s latest piece… sucks you in at first listen, packing enough punch to help you find the strength to love yourself fiercely and unapologetically.”

Rothstein tackles topics from body empowerment to feminism to mental health and leaves audiences feeling empowered and energized.

La Jolla Light | 3/15/2019 | “BROKEN WORD: Poet to speak about conquering her eating disorder at Jewish Community Center in La Jolla/San Diego”

“I will be bigger than heartbreak,” opens Rothstein’s spoken-word piece, “Fierce This House.” “I will be stronger than the empty empty choking guzzling my chest.”

Rothstein, a 35-year-old poet, performance artist and motivational speaker raised in Chicago but based in New York City, has been featured in Cosmopolitan, The New Yorkerand Nylon Magazine, which raved that her work “sucks you in at first listen, packing enough punch to help you find the strength to love yourself fiercely and unapologetically.”

Rothstein phoned the Light while sitting on the stoop in front of her building in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

The things that happened to you were fairly insane. How did you find the strength to get through them?

“A lot of therapy, a lot of really incredible support from my family and friends. And I think the main anchor for my ultimate recovery and healing — I’ve been fully recovered now from my eating disorder for 14 years and moving beyond all the other traumas — is and was just that I’m an inherent optimist. And I’m a deeply spiritual person, and so my spiritual practice is feeling that we are all the God within and we are all interconnected and not separate, that we are quite beautifully one. Knowing that keeps me anchored and persevering beyond my trauma and pain. And I share my story so that other people know they’re not alone and that hopefully, the preventable things that happened to me never have to happen to anyone else. Death and change are inevitable. But sexual assault doesn’t have to exist, eating disorders don’t have to exist.”

Strip It Down | 9/21/2018 | “An Interview With Caroline Rothstein”

Poet, activist, writer, performer, Caroline Rothstein is a woman you want to get to know. Her work as an educator for Jewish, and non-Jewish, communities is inspiring; And her passion for the work she does and the Jewish tradition of “the mouth speaks” (more on that later) is breathtaking. I am deeply honored to have had the opportunity to speak with Caroline and I encourage everyone to expose themselves to her writings.

If you were to describe or explain your identity, how would you do so?

I am a white, ashkenazi Jew, cis-gender female from the North suburbs of Chicago. I am a writer, poet, and performer living in New York City.

CBS Evening News | 10/16/2017 | “#MeToo”: Hear from those speaking out against sexual assault, harassment

Narratively | 9/8/2017 | The 5 Best Stories From Narratively’s First 5 Years

August 1990, St. Marks Place. Priscilla Forsyth, one month shy of her fourteenth birthday and just home from summer camp, straddles one of the two lion statues guarding the downward staircase to the apartment building her family has owned since 1975. Naturally blonde Liza and dyed blonde Margaret idle with her. It’s hot out, and Priscilla is becoming more curious about the world beyond her sidewalk.

An energetic kid with a scrawny but chiseled build named Harold Hunter rides up on his BMX bike. “I’ve never seen blonde people in New York” before, he tells the girls, giggling. He was from the Campos Plaza Housing Projects nearby–a different world, to be sure, although he’d obviously seen blonde girls before.

NYLON | 8/16/2017 | This Powerful Spoken Word Piece Will Remind You To Love Yourself

“I will be bigger than heartbreak,” recites artist Caroline Rothstein in the opening lines of her poem. “I will be stronger than the empty empty choking guzzling my chest.” And just like that, Rothstein’s latest piece, “Fierce This House,” sucks you in at first listen, packing enough punch to help you find the strength to love yourself fiercely and unapologetically.

Rothstein is a member of Urban Word NYC, an organization at the forefront of the youth literary arts movement in the United States. Founded in 1999, UW presents free literary arts education and youth development programs in the areas of creative writing, spoken word, playwriting, college prep, literature, and hip-hop.

RADIO SKID ROW | 12/7/2016 | StreetLine – Caroline Rothstein listen

HAPPY CAMPERS PODCAST | 11/13/2016 | Episode 5 – Camp as a Safe Space Part 1 listen

POET TALK | 03/28/2016 | YouTube Interview watch

STOP SHAMING OUR BODIES | 03/07/2016 | YouTube Interview watch

FRONT ROW FACTOR | 02/14/2016 | #21 Dealing with Grief, Body Image and 3.6 Million Video Views with Caroline Rothstein listen

THE MS. CAMAY MORNING SHOW | 04/15/2015 | Radio Interview listen

FINDING OUR HUNGER | 04/08/2015 | Podcast Interview listen

BREAK THRU RADIO | 05/09/2013 | Interview and performance listen

THE KARI ADAMS SHOW | 01/21/2013 | Interview and performance watch