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In this episode, Girl Museum resident scholar Elizabeth Dillenberg discusses American poet Phillis Wheatley in honor of Black History Month as well as to introduce the new ⁠Girl Museum⁠ exhibition for March Heroines of the American Revolution and actor Sarah Sulewski reads Wheatley’s ‘To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth’.


Poem: To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth

Actor details:

Sarah Sulewski is currently a second-year MFA Acting student at the University of Florida. She is originally from the sunny state of California, and she identifies as a Queer, Black, multi-hyphenate artist who believes in the power of art to change the world. Since attending UF, she has starred in five on-campus productions: Yemaya's Belly, Blood at the Root, The Solo Performance Festival, La Mar, and the musical The Prom. She is currently in rehearsals for her sixth UF production, The Pliant Girls, a feminist retelling of Aeschylus' The Suppliants.