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

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

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

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Its headline was not censorious but relieved, even celebratory, iconoclastically co-opting the language of organised religion’s venomous hatred to declare: LGBTQ+ fiction is something that’s hard to get right. It’s often a struggle to find stories with relatable plots that go beyond the associated clichés – the soppy teen romance that’s oh so unrealistic, the idyllic accepting parents that so many of us never had. However, this isn’t a problem for Kate Charlesworth, whose work presents some of the most intriguing non-fiction narrative I’ve had the pleasure of reading in a long while.

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It should be noted that these test surfaces are not wholly representative of all underfoot surfaces, so additional information may be needed to help to identify the best slip-resistant shoes for your particular environment. Ensure the shoes you choose for work suit the environment, the tasks, and the types of potential contaminants. Some jobs may require a few different types of shoes. To encourage workers and others at the workplace to avoid slips, trips and falls, the following strategies can help:It wasn't until she went to Manchester to study art in the early 1970s that she began to explore "the misty unmapped world of feminine homosexuality," as her hidden copy of lesbian magazine Arena Three had it.

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Personally, I’ve experienced many people outside of our community presuming that parents just accept their children. Sadly, this just isn’t true. So many of us are estranged from our parents, and although Charlesworth’s story doesn’t result in that, she does consistently reference the difficulties she experienced with her mother, which I applaud. Sensible Footwear is the realistic LGBTQ+ material we’ve all been waiting for (along with Tamaki’s Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me). Now that Sensible Footwear is finished, she and Dianne are working how to live without this monster of a book dominating their lives. Her father, she says, was a little more understanding. "He was a sweetheart. He had been around the world in the war and he had seen a bit more of life and mum just hadn't. And because my mum was unhappy, my dad was unhappy. I think he probably wouldn't have bothered me too much, but he had to live with her."

And now it is here, with all the baggage that any and all books carry. All that hope and fear and love. 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." 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! For work situations where you have some control over footwear, but where floors are mainly clean and dry, a sensible footwear policy can help reduce risks. For slips and trips sensible means: - flat, with a sensible heel, with the sole and heel made in a softer material that provides some grip.

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The safety features of footwear, including slip resistance, are tested according to a set of European test standards written into EN ISO 20344:2004 (A1: 2007). Footwear which has passed the EN test for slip resistance will be marked with one of the following codes, SRA, SRB or SRC.You can commission additional slip testing through the supplier – eg on surfaces/ contaminants representative of your workplace. 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.

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When I first came out there were these rules about what you could do and what you couldn't do. You had to be butch or femme and you were looked at with great suspicion if you didn't seem to be declaring for one or the other." Even so, Charlesworth was willing to march and stand up for gay rights in the face of abuse and oppression and "that vile" Thatcher government which introduced Section 28, which banned the “promotion” of homosexuality. Choosing slip-resistant footwear from the whole host of products on the market can be difficult. Sole descriptions are varied, from 'improving the grip performance' to 'excellent multi-directional slip-resistance'. Often, footwear is just described as 'slip-resistant' and the brochure does not describe the conditions for which the footwear is most suitable.In work situations where floors can’t be kept dry or clean e.g. food preparation, the right footwear will be especially important, so a slip resistant shoe may be required. If an employer introduces a slip resistant shoe policy, the footwear will be considered to be personal protective equipment and will be subject to the requirements of the Personal Protective Equipment Regulations



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