Art Space Sanctuary operates with an expanded understanding of sanctuary that recognizes the multiple ways in which state-based policies, corporate profits, and geopolitical interests intersect with other forms of power exercised through inequalities of race, gender, sexuality, and class. In pushing for sanctuary spaces, Art Space Sanctuary works in solidarity with a range of other groups trying to create spaces for living viable, vibrant and secure lives, safe from environmental and structural racism, the ruthless inequalities of capitalism, health inequities and state-based violence.