Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide - A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020

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Footwear trials should involve a representative sample of the workforce and last long enough to produce meaningful results. Remember - workers may not wear footwear if it is uncomfortable or impractical, no matter how effective it is. soles that are very smooth, but tasks and environment require moving across smooth, polished floors that may have contaminants My favourite place to be is partway through a book that I have just realised is becoming an all-time favourite. This month, it happened with Kate Charlesworth’s graphic memoir, Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide, a political history of gay rights in the UK and a personal history of her place in the struggle. A viral disease is sweeping the world, killing indiscriminately. Well, nearly. Its fatal impact is concentrated in a particular minority, one that many in society seem to regard as expendable, as less valuable than the average. At least in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it’s socially unacceptable to vilify older people openly, or to characterise their deaths as an acceptable cost, but during the height of the AIDS pandemic, before any effective treatments had been developed, gay male humans had to endure the most horrific abuse and exclusion, and the most hurtful things imaginable were said openly in the mainstream media. It should be matter of intense national shame that our society was so unpleasant, so unbelievably horrible to a group of its members who were not only not doing anybody any harm, but who were living in ground zero of the most appalling tragedy to strike affluent societies in the post-war era. I feel ashamed, just for having continued to hide behind the performance of convenient social roles like ‘man’ and ‘heterosexual’ when I should have been shouting my natural queerness in solidarity at the top of my voice. I continue to perform those roles to this day, for convenience, for ease, despite knowing very well what tenuous constructed categories they are, and how riddled with entrenched interests. If we don’t write our history down, the next generation are cut adrift from the journey that lies behind their present lives. Without a sense of where they have come from and how far they have come, they are vulnerable to losing the advances they have made. A Girl’s Guide to Sensible Footwear will be a crucial cornerstone in building our future by making sure we remember our past. And Kate’s style – feisty, questioning, open, witty and sometimes angry – is the perfect vehicle to communicate that lived history of feminism, activism and liberation history in a uniquely accessible way.

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This isn’t to say that she avoids the struggles, the prejudice and the oppression. All the milestones, legal and otherwise, are here, including section 28, legislation that she and her friends object to with every fibre of their beings. But this isn’t an earnest book. What I most love is its author’s ability to send up both herself and lesbians in general. There is pain in her depiction of her working-class parents and their refusal to accept her sexuality. But she never stops loving them, or they her, and makes excellent comedy out of the stubborn convictions of her mother, who in old age turns against her favourite TV series, Last Tango in Halifax, after it develops a “massive lesbian plot strand!”. It's a source of regret, clearly. And yet she never fell out with her parents. She was never disowned. The UK has no specific law that says it's illegal to drive barefoot, more a general rule about maintaining control of your vehicle. The 1988 Road traffic act is the main piece of legislation and this basically says that you're guilty of an offence if you're in a position which doesn't give proper control or a full view of the road and traffic ahead. Then there’s the secret stuff you do with in the shed, tent or some other sort of den. You didn’t?! I did! Kate makes Colin scream. “I was always hands-on.”And it seems a puzzle because Joan’s reactions are unpredictable, all over the place, basking in company you’d suspect she’d flinch from, yet at other times growing distant, walling herself off…. RR801 - A study of the effect of modifying the European Standard mechanical slip resistance test for footwear Further information have a Footwear Policy, e.g. for 'sensible' and/or 'slip resistant' footwear and the requirement to clean and maintain the footwear For maximum control while driving, you should opt for soft shoes with a thin sole that also has a little grip. These will allow your ankle to remain flexible and keep your sole sensitive to how much pressure you're placing on the pedals. They won't be too heavy, and won't be so chunky as to put you in danger of pressing two pedals down at once. If you're planning a long road trip, comfort is key.

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That we begin the graphic novel in Teneriffe, 2016, with Kate hooked up not with Ness but Dianne (and, along with friend Wren, all basking joyfully in the brightest of rainbow-coloured combos) cleverly adds a level of eager anticipation on our parts, as well as the certain knowledge that there is a whole lot yet for Kate to enjoy and endure. Most of life comes with mixed feelings. And yeah, it’s pretty eventful.In the end her parents were both creatures of the world they grew up in. Her dad was the youngest of a Victorian family, after all. Charlesworth’s story is the story of gay and lesbian life in the UK; a journey from disapproval (at best), oppression and aggression to acceptance. Charlesworth herself grew up in 1960s Yorkshire where her parents ran a corner shop. "I was never particularly interested in sexuality," she says of her childhood and teenage years. "I never had the stirrings. I'd heard about lesbianism and one night a penny dropped, you know? 'Oh my God, I wouldn't surprised if I turned out to be one of them.' I had a dark night of the soul for about 24 hours. And then I thought: 'Do I fancy anybody? No. Not blokes or women or anything.' And quite pragmatically I thought I'd leave it until I do. Which was quite a while, it turned out." It’s all documented here, with real headline quotes – so many duplicitous – that will make your skin crawl.

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Consider asking your supplier to provide trial pairs to help you make the right choice, and do not select footwear on the basis of brochure descriptions or laboratory test results alone. This might explain why so many shoes sold specifically for driving are in the style of a moccasin. Basically, the best sort of driving footwear is your basic flat shoe or trainer. Oil-resistant' does not mean 'slip-resistant' – the former is just a statement that the soles will not be damaged by oil.Sensible Footwear documents Charlesworth’s life as a lesbian, incorporating non- fiction documentation of the LGBTQ+ movement from the 1950s to present. Charlesworth has created a detailed look into the world of gay culture and the gay rights movement, using her own life experiences as a basis for the inclusion of relevant events and developments that were happening around her at the time. Also books, plays and films: you’ll have quite the reading list when you finish this, should you want seminal works to watch out for!

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Because ostracism is a bitch, and its prospect’s pretty daunting; potentially even more so when they’re your friends. And now it is here, with all the baggage that any and all books carry. All that hope and fear and love. Children who need to be taught traditional moral values are being taught that they have the inalienable right to be gay!” That lesbian self-policing of look and behaviour didn't end there. "It happened again in the eighties in the lesbian sex wars. It's almost too ghastly to go into. What sort of lesbian are you going to be? There was a slogan: 'lesbianism is feminism in practice' or words to that effect. And quite a few women were political lesbians who had declared themselves lesbians because that was the logical conclusion. You don't sleep with the enemy." You can commission additional slip testing through the supplier – eg on surfaces/ contaminants representative of your workplace.