Investigate. Build. Rebel.
Threshold Magazine and Unity and Struggle have joined together to present a round table discussion about the Black Lives Matter m...
I’m Queer, I’m Muslim, and I’m Not Apologizing For Either
by Sara Khaled I’m sad. Really, really sad, and it seems that’s the reasonable response. People all over the country and the world are mourning out of direct loss, or the specter of it. It is scary to have your reality called into question, and in some moments it happens so abruptly that you feel […]
#3everyday: Powerful performance art from an Atlanta artist
by Jessica Caldas #3everyday was a Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence Awareness month performance project completed in October 2015. This project was based on the primary statistic that three women die every day from domestic violence. The work consisted of a daily three woman performance piece based on the movements of women preparing to leave their […]
A Poetic Response to Raven Simone
Jay Ali has something to say to Raven Simone’s comment about Black women with “ghetto names.” Check it out!
Ball is Life: The Inferiority Complex of Asian Americans in Basketball
by Veryl Pow Ball is life. For most, this popular refrain echoing across hardwood floors and concrete courts across the nation connotes a particular way of life, quantified in the number of hours spent in devotion to the love of the game. Among the most impassioned, this refrain assumes the added dimension of practicing until […]
Meet The Regal People
What do you get when you mix Southern politics, global perspectives, fashion and music? You get The Regal People, a collective out of Houston, Texas. They just dropped their first EP, Afrogalactic, and their Fall 2015 fashion line, found here. from the crew: Afrogalactik was our first attempt at making a Hip Hop album from […]
“Being from St. Louis, growing up near Ferguson, I wanted to express my frustration and hope artistically. Pointillism is an art...
Critical thresholds are everywhere.
The threshold at which you finally profess your love to your best friend.
The threshold at which you storm out of that dead-end job that never gave you shit to hope for.
The threshold at which you stop ruminating, pulsing, obsessing- and do.
We in the south are fighters.
The fairy tale of porches and sweet tea isn’t our story.
Our porches are filled with
writers,
thinkers,
painters,
actors,
dreamers,
revolutionaries.
The sun here shines a little brighter, the weeds grow a little thicker and for that we are strong.
We’re searching for a way out. Listening and learning.
Threshold Magazine is a new project of investigation and revolutionary analysis in the US South. If you’re interested in discussing or getting involved in the project, contact us.
