Dr. Sleemi to join panel at Ensemble Studio Theatre's "Behind the Sheet"

We are excited to share that IMR’s Executive Director Dr. Sleemi will be joining a panel of experts for a conversation on February 2nd after the 2pm performance of BEHIND THE SHEET. The play, written by Charly Evon Simpson and produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC, “confronts the history of a great medical breakthrough by telling the forgotten story of a community of enslaved black women who involuntarily enabled the discovery. In 1840s Alabama, Philomena assists a doctor—her owner—as he performs experimental surgeries on her fellow slave women, trying to find a treatment for the painful post-childbirth complications known as fistulas. Reframing the origin story of modern gynecology, the play dramatizes how these women supported each other, and questions who, and what, history remembers.”

We hope you can join us! Click here for more info.