I have a problem with a member of staff who is saying that because we are restricting the type of footwear they can wear then it is PPE and we should pay. In my old retail life staff were expected to wear sensible appropriate footwear - provided by themselves. This person wants to wear open toes in a small kitchen , the RA states closed toes as there is a risk of hot liquids. 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.

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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. During these many mother-and-daughter outings in all kinds of environments, mother Joan can flip swiftly from disapproval to animated enjoyment, depending on what’s distracting her. Of Diana Rigg, strutting her high-heeled, split-dress stuff, she cannot help but declare, “Well! She’s certainly managed to keep her legs!” In 2015, her graphic novel Sally Heathcote: Suffragette was included in a list published by The Guardian of the "t op 10 books about revolutionaries". 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. You can commission additional slip testing through the supplier – eg on surfaces/ contaminants representative of your workplace.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.

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The correct choice of footwear on wet or contaminated profiled steel or aluminium surfaces, eg chequer plate, is important. With some footwear the surface profiles do not provide the improvement in slip resistance that might be expected. So while it's not strictly illegal to drive without shoes in the UK, the law does seem to suggest that shoes are involved. As the Birmingham Mail reported recently, the body which regulates driving tests in the UK is pretty sure driving barefoot or in in flip flops isn't a good idea. 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." 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. 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."

As well as being a memoir of her life, the book is also a document of what has happened in queer history. One little tidbit I got from the book was that Calamity Jane was an undercover queer classic! 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.