Published in Overland Issue 233 Summer 2018 · Uncategorized Office wear made me trans Harry Reid after melinda bufton does melinda bufton think this much about collared shirts? probably not. i imagine her at my new desk wearing a striped dress, matching earrings – she sends emails like culottes very fashionably, regardless of climate. i cross my legs maybe hitch up my pants, it’s almost beautiful but only before lunch. aspirationally, pinafores feature heavily – more immediately, a white blouse worn with high-cut black denim ‘like the horses album cover meets that clip of japan on top of the pops’ but the girl in myer doesn’t get it and hands me a gingham shirt she assures me is ‘fun’. cool, i’m out. Image: Magnus Franklin / flickr Read the rest of Overland 233 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Harry Reid Harry Reid is a poet based in Melbourne. They are a co-director of Sick Leave, and the author of the best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend (Puncher & Wattmann, 2021). More by Harry Reid › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 21 February 202521 February 2025 · The university Closing the noose: a dispatch from the front line of decasualisation Matthew Taft Across the board, universities have responded to legislation aimed at rectifying this already grim situation by halting casual hiring, cutting courses, expanding class sizes, and increasing the workloads of permanent staff. This is an unintended consequence of the legislation, yes, but given the nefarious history of the university, from systemic wage theft to bad-faith bargaining, hardly a surprising one. 19 February 2025 · Disability The devaluing of disability support Áine Kelly-Costello and Jonathan Craig Over the past couple of decades, disabled people in much of the Western world have often sought, or agreed to, more individualised funding schemes in order to gain greater “choice and control” over the support we receive. But the autonomy, dignity and flexibility we were promised seems constantly under threat or out of reach, largely because of the perception that allowing us such “luxuries” is too expensive.
