Welcome!

Welcome to Threshold Strategies, an equity-focused consulting service providing legal and policy counsel on civil rights issues with particular expertise in the LGBTQI+ community, legislative and administrative advocacy, and the intersections between justice and mental health. Here’s a few ways that might look:

  • Guidance on the social and legal issues LGBTQI+ people are facing right now, especially attacks on transgender rights

  • Policy strategy on healthcare, education, and nondiscrimination laws

  • Building connections between nonprofits, organizers, faith institutions, and government agencies

  • Risk assessments for organizations, businesses, and communities under increased threat

  • Development of issue-based campaigns from the ground up, from local trials to nationwide implementation

  • Trainings on everything from Know Your Rights to Trans 101 to civil rights history

We find ourselves in a hard moment, as a community and as a country. But we’ve seen hard moments before.

The name (and logo) for Threshold Strategies comes from a piece of history written in another hard moment - a play called Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Two characters have simultaneously hit some version of rock bottom, one from an overdose of Valium and the other from complications of AIDS. During a shared hallucination between strangers, they find that, in this moment of disease and despair, some things that ordinarily lurk below the surface are suddenly visible to them. “Oh that happens,” says one. “This is the very threshold of revelation sometimes. You can see things.”

We find ourselves in a threshold moment. It is, almost by definition, one of loss, fear, and existential threat. There are days it feels downright apocalyptic. But it is also, if we can sit in discomfort and keep our eyes open, one of revelation. Apokálypsis, the original Greek word from which “apocalypse” is derived, doesn’t mean an ending - it means an uncovering. Literally, “an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known, and which could not be known apart from the unveiling.”

How well our well-worn strategies have and haven’t served us, how many people have been left behind, how much will be asked of us in the days to come. How hard our ancestors fought so we could be alive to face them.

If you share the belief that we have what it takes to keep our eyes open, or if you’re just curious how we might be able to help each other in the work to make the world a safer place for all, schedule a chat here.