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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. 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. Want to know more about British LGBT history, mainly focused on lesbians and a personal memoir? This book is for you. Color and texture is used to emphasize the individual themes and messages portrayed in each layout - the attention to detail is phenomenal. The reading experience consistently reminded me of looking through a stunning scrapbook filled to the brim with historical significance. The letter H can be useful to create some two-letter words but there are some longer, high scoring words too. Here are some examples.
Which kind of driving shoes should I wear? | The AA Which kind of driving shoes should I wear? | The AA
To continue our graphic novel obsession, we're celebrating the wonderful Sensible Shoes by @kate_charlesworth/ @auntie_studs. Half personal memoir, half graphic guide, this beautifully drawn, chunky tome charts the course of LGBTI+ history in the UK (1950-now) with an extra joyous emphasis on lesbian life! 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! I wonder if Kate Charlesworth’s title, Sensible Shoes [ sic - Cathy], is even meaningful to today’s young queer? Kate Charlesworth lived through that era without such luxuries (or cop-outs), and Sensible Footwear: a girl’s guide is her graphic memoir of life as a lesbian in a society which has gone from ‘what you two need is a man to sort you out apiece’ to an openly homosexual woman leading the Scottish Conservatives. She shows the impact of AIDs on lesbians, who were not likely to contract HIV themselves, but who lost huge numbers of their friends and allies, and had to contend with society’s hysterically homophobic response to this hard-to-transmit disease. By the time I got around to reading this comic, a new pandemic was shutting down everyone’s accustomed behaviours, and Charlesworth (who was born in 1950) was a member of its most vulnerable group of potential sufferers. It was her depiction of the AIDs epidemic that started my tears, but I soon found myself overwhelmed with regret for all the bigotry and nastiness that has been directed at a subset of our people whose ‘difference’ isn’t even a difference, when it comes down to it, so much as an honesty. The result is a highly unique format: a combination of digital collaging techniques integrated with a graphic memoir, which results in a sophisticated and impressively composed visual diary. Historical points of reference thematically combine with fragments of Charlesworth’s own experiences of growing up in an era when it was a lot harder to meet other people in the LGBTQ+ community.In 1950, when Kate was born, male homosexuality carried a custodial sentence. But female homosexuality had never been an offence in the UK, effectively rendering lesbians even more invisible than they already were—often to themselves. Growing up in Yorkshire, the young Kate had to find role models wherever she could, in real life, books, film and TV. The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) carries out research on footwear testing for HSE, and they have developed an in-house test which they have used for testing many footwear types. See: 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.
SENSIBLE SHOES definition and meaning | Collins English SENSIBLE SHOES definition and meaning | Collins English
For generations, our goal has been to make the most comfortable shoe in the world. A shoe that makes you happy. We suspect it could be contagious, because even the youngest generation is rearing to go and continue to pursuit of our family business. No, they didn't do that. It created conflict and some distress, but that never happened. And later on in mum's life, we came to a kind of accommodation. She was never comfortable with it."
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All education should be an entertainment and this one comes vibrant in colour, comedy and variety without a po face in sight: Tread patterns should not become clogged with any waste or debris on the floor – soles should be cleaned regularly. If soles do clog up then look for an alternative design of sole, eg with a wider space between the cleats and a deeper tread pattern. 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." You are hereby ever so warmly invited to walk a mile or twenty-six in somebody else’s – Kate Charlesworth’s and the growing LGBT+ community’s – in a personal insight, education and entertainment spanning 70 years from the 1950s onwards! You can commission additional slip testing through the supplier – eg on surfaces/ contaminants representative of your workplace.
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Long before Carrie Bradshaw became the patron saint of women's footwear, the designer Christian Dior said, "You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes." And as true as this may be for the style-conscious, it's doubly so for drivers. have a Footwear Policy, e.g. for 'sensible' and/or 'slip resistant' footwear and the requirement to clean and maintain the footwear 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. 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. As a child, Kate says she was appalled when she realised society expected her to marry a man, the book then follows her life growing up as a queer woman and how her family reacts to that, the friends she makes and her relationships.
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It’s all documented here, with real headline quotes – so many duplicitous – that will make your skin crawl. It’s written v like Alice in Sunderland (she’s a friend of Bryan Talbot) and much of the joy is the combination of learning new things and recognising faces. Health monitoring for exposure to hazardous chemicals guide for persons conducting a business or undertaking 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.
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