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Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide – Kate Charlesworth’s Essential Graphic Memoir/LGBTQ+ History is Poignant, Celebratory, Informative and Wryly Humorous

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 7, 2020

The title of Kate Charlesworth’s acclaimed graphic memoir/LGBTQ+ history comes from an old saying that implied the kind of woman who “preferred to wear sensible shoes” may have been, or…

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“Not Very Long Ago, to Say that Someone Was the Sort of Woman Who ‘Prefers to Wear Sensible Shoes’ Could Imply that She Was a Lesbian” – More Recently, Kate Charlesworth’s Book of the Same Name Debuted, to Shed Technicolour Light on the Subject from Her Expert Angle

  • by Jenny Robins
  • October 16, 2019

“Not very long ago, to say that someone was the sort of woman who ‘prefers to wear sensible shoes’ could imply that she was a lesbian” Even more recently, Kate Charlesworth’s graphic…

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