Step into the future of healthy masculinity with the Spring 2026 issue of Voice Male Magazine, published by Next Gen Men with special co-publisher Mothers Matter Canada. As we build a world where boys and men experience less pain and cause less harm, this issue brings together powerful stories, research, and personal reflections that challenge old norms and offer new hope.
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Featured Articles
Motivated by Equimundo’s MenCare Changemaker Journey, this issue gathers around a single word: care. The quiet, often invisible ways men already give it, and what it would take to put care at the centre of manhood rather than its margins.
What My Sons Are Teaching Me About Reclaiming Mi’kmaq Masculinity
A mother of three Mi’kmaq boys goes looking for a definition of manhood that colonialism didn’t write—and finds it in her own sons, and in the ribbon shirts she makes with Mi’kmaq men. What emerges is a masculinity rooted in balance, relationality, and care that Canada’s enduring legacy of colonialism has tried to erase but never killed.
by CHEYENNE JOSEPH
Our Care Deficit Is an Attention Deficit
After a simple time-use exercise with his wife exposed how little of the household’s care he actually noticed, this father makes the case that our care deficit is really an attention deficit: we spend more energy not noticing care than it would take to simply do it. The first step toward caring manhood is simply learning to see.
by WESSEL VAN DEN BERG
Inherited Silences: Care, Migration, and the Making of Masculinity
A psychotherapist in a Delhi homeless shelter watches men care for one another in ways no one names—and shows how poverty and migration drains men of their emotional lives, teaching them to map care within patterns of endurance and provision. The silence men inherit, he argues, isn’t absence; it’s a language of care that has lost its words.
by ABU UMAIR
