Arundhati Kalyan reviews ‘Proposals for a Memorial to Partition’ at Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre, probing the question of whether art, curation, and current conceptions of memorialization can do justice to a tragic historical event of this scale

Images from American photographer Shane Rocheleau’s eponymous book form a portrait of the psyche of white heteronormative masculinity and its visceral manifestations in the United States – accompanied with an artist Q&A

"Yes – it was my ass. An ass that needed grooming. " In this comedic essay – nearly a standup skit – Gaurav Dewani recounts his first butt-waxing experience

EIC Zoe Patterson weaves together an analysis of Kendrick Lamar's new album with grief over her relationship with an absent parent

Directed by Izzy Mana and Enrico Bellenghi, Familiar Traces is a fashion film narrative which explores the internal pressure that second generation Black British youth face from a young age

Two charcoal drawings by Saif Mhaisen depict the artist’s close, curious gaze on both his friend and himself

Twisting myths, tropes, and figures – both human and animal – in and out of each other, Iranian multidisciplinary artist Zahra Mohamadi undercuts our constrictive constructions of gender

Combining audio documentary and photography, Alpha & Omega interrogates God’s will and existence through heard and inscribed conversations with an older matriarch

Tommaso Montino’s photographic series captures young men on the cusp of adulthood as they grapple with their masculinity and the surrounding dreams, softness, and violence of their cities

Irish poet Holly Darragh-Hickey explores feelings of introversion, guilt, inadequacy, and anger in this poem where “words throbbed under pressure”

Logic and alpha-maleness stifle the potential for love in this poem by San Antonio poet, Catherine Lee

Hannah Norris’ poem explores the discomfiting bizarreness of male behavior towards women in public spaces

Oliver Sedano-Jones returns to childhood to explore vengeance and hierarchy between seat-kickers in this rhythmic and hilarious poem

In this comical poem by P.W. Bridgman, a man rails against his daughter's boyfriend's man-bun

Welsh poet Elizabeth Wilson Davies probes constructions of the female body through two lyric poems: "Eel Man" and "Blonde Ambition"

In "Birthright" and "Atonement with the Father", Scottish poet Sarah Grant roots around in her own history, and forgives the future

"Like merchandise, men do not live long." This found poem by Ricky Novaes de Oliveira is composed entirely from words taken from clothes labels and tags. With artwork by Sandra Paris

With a wildfire looming in the distance, an author sets out to write something that will make him feel seen, in this evocative poem by William Doreski

David Romanda’s narrative poem distills a relationship-defining moment between a man, woman, and cat. With artwork by Charlie Riddle

In this vernacular poem by Charles H. Lynch, a husband and wife spar over their respective spending habits

In this short story, Meirav Seifert tells the chilling tale of a school that erases individuality. With photography by Ashlyn Vickery

TW: physical and sexual abuse

An excerpt from Sondra R. Brooks’ unpublished memoir, this personal essay paints a childhood haunted by the damaging spectre of hypermasculine, alpha father figures