RADIUM GIRLS - Serio Comics 2
RADIUM GIRLS written and drawn by Cy (published by Glénat Editions & Iron Circus Comics) - 01/24/23
Happy Aquarius Season!
This ♒️ rising is happy to report that this past Saturday of the Aquarius new moon, a recording was made of what will soon become the 3rd episode of the
Podcast & its 2nd Podscript with Astrologer Rachel Lang 🥰Rachel is now also the first openly lesbian 👩❤️💋👩 woman elected 🗳️ to political office in Ojai, California!!!
It was a marathon of 2.5 hours 🎙️🙊 so it’s going to take more than a minute to edit but it was a very fun and insightful one about her unique intersection of social engagement 🇺🇸🏘️ & spirituality ✝️🧙♀️
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Her previous collaboration with our parent Substack
in 227 was one of the most popular guest posts from Volume 1She later appeared in post 276 about how a session with her of past lives regression helped continue to heal some divorce themes from that year of memoir
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RADIUM GIRLS written and drawn by Cy (published by Glénat Editions & Iron Circus Comics)
This week’s work of graphic literature was picked out at Skylight Books here in Los Feliz because it felt like an especially Aquarian subject
As you’ll see in the Rachel Lang podcast, she discussed how idealistic, revolutionary, humanitarian, and individual-to-benefit-the-group-oriented Aquarius will be as Pluto stations into it in 2023
Which could see transformations like unionization at places like Amazon & Starbucks and perhaps not-dystopian/more utopian changes in the workforce as a result of AI
RADIUM GIRLS is the graphic novel retelling of the events of 1918 when women in New Jersey working jobs for a local watch factory gained the nickname “Ghost Girls” because of the fine dusting of glowing, radioactive powder that clung to their clothes and even their skin and lips as they painted what was claimed by their employer to be the perfectly harmless element Radium onto the dials of their mass-produced product
It was written and drawn by the French visual artist, Cyrielle Evrard, under her nome de plume, Cy
Among the many highlights of Cy’s career so far:
In 2014, she wrote the column Les Dessins de Cy(prine), which showcased a plurality of sexualities and tackled ideas of consent, respect and pleasure and were based on the testimonies of her readers…Even with great reception and the backing of famed publishing house Lapin Éditions, the work was censored by Amazon on its Kindle, for "containing pornographic elements"
In January 2018, she released a new format on her YouTube channel, entitled Pub-à-click, in which she critiques corporate advertisements and its relationship to art
Then in 2020 she published the aforementioned RADIUM GIRLS which is about how those women ended up suing the Radium Dial company for its negligent radiation poisoning, which led to the establishment of workers’ rights such as:
Each individual worker could now sue their employer for damages in the event of injuries suffered in the workplace
Which is crazy to think that wasn’t a law!!!
It also helped lead to a rise in industrial safety standards in general as well as the creation of the OSHA, which is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Its Seriocomic-ness is much different than last week’s ALL YOUR RACIAL PROBLEMS WILL SOON END by Charles Johnson in that even though it’s also political, its not as sharply satirical, though there are some subtle critiques
Like this moment pointing out the ubiquity of predatory advertising:
The comic lightness in the tone I enjoyed the most was the depiction of self-love & joy that the Ghost/Radium Girls felt when they were gainfully employed and still healthy and could enjoy the freedom and luxuries of life in the innocent prime of their youth:
As well as…
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