My poem “The Radium Girls” is today’s featured poem on Rise Up Review. If you’ve not heard of The Radium Girls, they were a group of women who worked painting faces on high end watches. They were lied to about the silvery paint they were using (it was radioactive) and they were also encouraged to dip their paintbrushes on their lips and tongue to preserve the points of the paintbrushes and save money on supplies. Let that sink in a minute: the lives of the women were less important than the shelf life of paintbrushes.
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