The Evolving Gaze (2025 Q1 / Paperback Magazine)

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Quarter 1 Literary Magazine (2025, Paperback edition)

In The Evolving Gaze, 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.

IHRAM Press Magazine proudly provides a platform for these voices, offering a space for poetry and prose to resonate with reflections of emotion, hope, and the enduring connection to one’s identity.

The IHRAM Press magazine was created with a simple goal: to celebrate and uplift up-and-coming authors from all over the world; each of the authors in this anthology contend with their identities in the context of their environments, providing readers with their unique perspectives on issues of human rights.

Quarter 1 Literary Magazine (2025, Paperback edition)

In The Evolving Gaze, 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.

IHRAM Press Magazine proudly provides a platform for these voices, offering a space for poetry and prose to resonate with reflections of emotion, hope, and the enduring connection to one’s identity.

The IHRAM Press magazine was created with a simple goal: to celebrate and uplift up-and-coming authors from all over the world; each of the authors in this anthology contend with their identities in the context of their environments, providing readers with their unique perspectives on issues of human rights.

 

Format: Paperback

Publication date: March 2025

Part of the IHRAM Literary Magazine series

 

What are people saying?

  • “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.”