Linares is an advocate for what’s called the solidarity economy—a deep-rooted international movement toward sustainable economic arrangements that value community ownership and democratic governance—and her ongoing work involves connecting the dots between those concepts and the arts. That could look like worker-owned cooperatives, participatory arts budgeting, or mutual aid networks, to name a few examples. “It’s not just about what we’re against,” she once told me. “We also need to consider what we want to build.”2
