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The Evolving Gaze (2025 Q1 E-Magazine)

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Quarter 1 Literary Magazine (E-magazine edition)

In The Evolving Gaze: Society’s Voice for Masculinity, the first Quarter Literary Magazine for 2025, the featured authors and artists share raw first-hand experiences and bring a broad spectrum of perspectives to the forefront, challenging traditional notions of masculinity. Drawing from generational and cultural heritage, they embrace progressive ways of thinking and reflect on their forefathers’ experiences to redefine identity and self-expression.

Society has framed an idea around what masculinity should look like across generations, silencing men in the fear that they would be ostracised for expressing their true feelings or identity. But change is growing steadily and male voices are rising to the forefront; embracing emotional vulnerability, identity exploration, and rewiring the language around masculinity in order to encourage a healthier mindset.

Quarter 1 Literary Magazine (E-magazine edition)

In The Evolving Gaze: Society’s Voice for Masculinity, the first Quarter Literary Magazine for 2025, the featured authors and artists share raw first-hand experiences and bring a broad spectrum of perspectives to the forefront, challenging traditional notions of masculinity. Drawing from generational and cultural heritage, they embrace progressive ways of thinking and reflect on their forefathers’ experiences to redefine identity and self-expression.

Society has framed an idea around what masculinity should look like across generations, silencing men in the fear that they would be ostracised for expressing their true feelings or identity. But change is growing steadily and male voices are rising to the forefront; embracing emotional vulnerability, identity exploration, and rewiring the language around masculinity in order to encourage a healthier mindset.

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Format: E-magazine

Publication date: March 2025

Part of the IHRAM Literary Magazine series

What are people saying about The Evolving Gaze?

  • “A redefining or re-describing of masculinity according to men’s shared lived experience, wants, needs, and desires, is embraced in this candid, evocative, and stunning collection of poems, stories, essays, paintings, and collages in the first issue of the Evolving Gaze, a vibrant and thoughtful curation by editor Lisa Zammit. Vitally, The Evolving Gaze reminds us that definitions and descriptions of humans are human rights issues—definitions can be used as weapons or shields, to silence or to evoke speech, to commodify or … to create harmony, to gain understanding, to spark change, or so many things. The issue feels very personal, as each work is accompanied by reflections from the artist describing the inspiration for their works, and a separate section containing author bios is included at the end of the magazine.”

 

Magazine Information

  • Curated & Edited by: Lisa Zammit

  • Founding Producer (for permission requests): Tom Block

  • Editorial Theme: Describes a unique and diverse plethora of voices around society's voice for masculinity. The stories and art challenge traditional notions of masculinity and motivate a reshaping of the idea of masculinity.

  • Content Warning: Reader's discretion is advised, as some pieces contain references to mental and physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental illness, and profanities.