Irondequoit Town Supervisor Andraé Evans will take part in the library’s continuing DEI Book Discussion Series in August with a Labor Day Book Discussion about Radium Girls by Cy. The discussion will be held on Wednesday, August 28, at 6:30 PM.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: Radium Girls is a graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers’ rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918.
These working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of glowing, radioactive powder that clings to their clothes after every shift painting watch dials. The soft, greenish glow even stains their lips and tongues. It’s perfectly harmless… or so claims the watch manufacturer. When teeth start falling out, followed by jawbones, the dial painters become the unprepared vanguard on the frontlines of the burgeoning workers’ rights movement.
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Copies of Radium Girls are available at the Circulation Desk on the first floor, or they can be reserved by calling 585-336-6060 when the library is open.
If you’d like to participate in the discussion, please register now through our Event Calendar.
The DEI Book Discussion Series will continue later this year with I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day (November 20).
Published on August 2, 2024.
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