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Ryan H.

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Your friendly neighborhood abolitionist. Educator/Activist/Artist and wildlife photographer. Building towards a care-based world in unarmed response, housing & social/racial justice; writing at https://creating.care (he/him) 💛🤍💜🖤 ♿ linktr.ee/rhenyard

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · Jan 23

If you're in Southeast Michigan, this set of resources I've compiled have a lot of organizations working to protect those under threat from the new administration.

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · Dec 3

Happy to share that for #GivingTuesday I've created my 5th (!) edition of Ryan's Community Giving Guide for SE Michigan. Please share widely, and let me know if you discover/donate to someone new through this work - it really helps!

You can grab the full PDF version at www.henyard.com/giving

Cover of Ryan's Community Giving Guide - 2024-25 for Southeast Michigan. Main image is a photo of a sandhill crane, head bowed forward, with its heart-shaped crest centered in the frame ahead of a flurry of grey feathers. Bottom of the image has the Creative Commons attribution information (CC-BY-NC-SA) and a tag saying ' Created by Ryan Henyard (me!) v5.0 - henyard.com/giving - edit and adapt for your own community

text from the 'about the author' page: I originally created this giving guide as a way to amplify the challenges my communities were facing in 2020, and I’ve heard from lots of people who expressed a desire to help but don’t know where to start or who to support. I created this guide to highlight and uplift some of the important work happening, and encourage you to choose some of these efforts to support through donations, volunteering or mutual aid for Giving Tuesday and beyond.

For our fifth (!) edition, I have made some additions and changes to the organizations listed in the guide, and expanded sections on programs. Our communities are filled with people dedicated to building a more just and loving future, and I’m glad to be able to share some of that with you.

Because this is centered around my communities and values, it is not a comprehensive guide by any means; the guide and artwork are both available under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA) and I would be elated if others spread love for community-based work in their own communities. The best gift I can receive during this season is knowing someone contributed to these efforts after reading this guide, so feel free to share your support for these community pillars with me on social media or email.

In love and solidarity,
Ryan Henyard

email: ryan@henyard.com
instagram: @kuroganeig
BlueSky: @radiantwings.bsky.social

example page of the guide from the Housing section:

Avalon Housing
avalonhousing.org/donate
Permanent supportive housing with wrap-around services in Washtenaw County

Freedom House Detroit
freedomhousedetroit.org
Housing, education & legal support for indigent survivors of persecution seeking asylum in the US

Ozone House
ozonehouse.org
Inclusive shelter & support services for homeless youth in Washtenaw County

Daytime Warming Centers of Washtenaw
facebook.com/DaytimeWarmingCenter
A community-run, rotating low-barrier shelter space for people to get warm during the winter

Ruth Ellis Center
ruthelliscenter.org
Trauma-informed services for Detroit LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness or the child welfare system

example page from the giving guide - Justice section:

A Brighter Way
abrighterway.org
Washtenaw mentoring program for returning citizens providing job skills, life skills & support

American Friends Service Committee - Michigan Criminal Justice Program
https://afsc.org/programs/michigan-criminal-justice
MCJP works directly with people imprisoned in Michigan to advocate for and with them, with the long-term goal of prison de-population.

Detroit Justice Center
detroitjustice.org
Legal services and transformative justice projects aimed at dismantling the carceral state.

Care-Based Safety
carebasedsafety.org
Care-Based Safety is building an independent, non-police response program that will grow life affirming safety options in Washtenaw County.

MI Liberation
miliberation.org
Grassroots network organizing against mass incarceration, criminalization, & the emergency release of prisoners during the pandemic.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19m

The politics of punishment is for losers and creeps and we're throwing that in the garbage where it belongs.

The politics of care is for winners and heroes and that's how we're fucking doing things from now on.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 15m

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 14m

Saw this and trying to decide between it and the keychron, wondering if the finish is better on this

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ace @aceanbender.com · 17m

rooting for the road team in a tie game of a baseball elimination game in the bottom of the ninth or later is what dying feels like

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Miriam Grace @miriamgrace.bsky.social · 2h

“For my full-time job, I make 40 cents an hour, the highest pay available in the Michigan prison system. That pay only goes so far. To eat healthy on my days off, and to avoid asking my loved ones for money, I’ve had to adopt side-hustle skills to support myself.”

$.4*9/day=$3.6/day=🫤

Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 10h

The Best Prison Job Is Teaching Residents How to Cook

The Most Coveted Job in the Michigan Prison System

As a chef tutor in prison, I teach people how to handle food safely, and how to cook and bake. It has lots of perks, but the pay is still abysmal.

prisonjournalismproject.org

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 4h

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 4h

"How many sky daddies do you have? If you don't mind me asking."

'...I am agnostic.'

"I understand that, do you pray to their father?"

Dave the Atheist @davetheatheist.bs... • 1h
How about not shoving your cult down our throats. Deal ?
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Ben B. @abominaldrvibes.bsky.social • 1h
I'm agnostic
Dave the Atheist @davetheatheist.bs... • 1h
Which gods are you agnostic about ?
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my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · 6h

Today in #ZineCataloging

One Million Experiments volume 8: Making a Plan
It's an activism workbook zine by @prisonculture.bsky.social. The whole series: millionexperiments.com/zines

Read the Zine: One Million Experiments

Read the Zine from One Million Experiments, where we explore community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe.

millionexperiments.com

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 6h

I'm only referring to myself in third person from now on. Mijin doesn't agree with false climate solutions! Mijin believes fossil fuel wind down is the only way forward!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7h

"What is it going to take before you drop your hate and say, 'Listen, the guy did the job!' I'm not running anymore, so you no longer have to do this whole charade. I turned the city around, folks—come on! ... Stop coming up with all of these creative ways of saying 'Eric failed.' Eric didn't fail."

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 6h

Sigh, Michigan folks, it’s time to yell at Peters again

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 8h

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 7h

The Sameer Project’s donations are down 45% today but their work is unfortunately far from over. Give to the South campaign, which supplies 200,000 liters of water a day: chuffed.org/project/1132...

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

chuffed.org

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 7h

I saw the folks holding an 'oh god can we please not be on camera for this' expression in the first clip but watching them all scurry away was something else

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Donnell Wyche @donnell.bsky.social · 2d

This is our plan in Ann Arbor:
aadl.org/newdowntown.

Voters in Ann Arbor this summer approved, by a 2-to-1 margin, an innovative approach to develop a new downtown library branch that will include both market-rate and affordable housing.

#a2council

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.

In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services

Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…

www.urban.org

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 7h

it's all fun and games until Martha-Ann Alito flies an Appeal to OVO flag at their beach house

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 9h

Congrats 🎉 so proud of you

a close up of a video game character with red hair and a collar

Alt: Estelle lifting her arms and saying woohoo I did it

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Mel, the Herohom ( • `ω´ • ) @herohommel.bsky.social · 9h

Happy Ys vs. Trails launch day! I had the honor of authoring the digital art book that comes with the Limited Edition version of this Falcom fighting game!

Thank you, @refint.games for the opportunity! I poured my heart into it!

FGC friends: SEE ME. Yes, it has rollback netcode. ;)

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 10h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 12h

New essay up on creating.care highlighting some of the work I've contributed to in mapping racial covenants in Ann Arbor #a2council

(Subscribe to the newsletter, it's free!)

Mapping segregation, and the promise of unveiling
creating.care/p/mapping-se...

Mapping segregation, and the promise of unveiling

Explore Ann Arbor's hidden history of racist housing segregation and learn how understanding past injustices can inform our fight for equitable communities today.

creating.care

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10h

Do you all know how many times Democrats weren’t able to do key resistance things in the House this year because extremely old people dropped dead in office

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10h

the idea that the only way we can have a primary is to run a 77 year old career politician against a newcomer is a sign of a tragically unimaginative politics

We need retirement from being an elected official to be a thing for politicians

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Gastronauts @gastronauts.bsky.social · 12h

🚀 TONIGHT! A new episode of Gastronauts launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT.

Join host @jordanmyr1ck.bsky.social for a series of unhinged cooking challenges from guest judges:
☄️ @erikaishii.bsky.social
☄️ Becca Scott
☄️ @persephiroth.bsky.social

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 10h

I sent a note to the author of this lovely reflection on my book. I feel a special duty to humanizing history. It's impossible to capture a full-person, but if we are able to capture enough of them that our work is fair, then we have done our part. stanforddaily.com/2025/10/08/l...

“The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal―and How to Set Them Right” by Adam Harris — Adeline Lee

In “The State Must Provide,” Adam Harris traces the history of racial inequality in American higher education and the systemic exclusion of Black Americans from education. He explores the establishment and development of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which emerged from a post-Civil War push for agricultural education. Harris also examines the HBCUs’ struggles for survival as state legislatures withheld funding and as activists and plaintiffs fought legal battles for education equality.

This book was eye-opening and humbling to read for me as a student pursuing higher education. Harris’ writing stood out for how powerfully it humanizes history; his portrayal of activists and plaintiffs not only through their work but also through their personal fears and struggles was devastating yet inspiring. It forced me to reflect on my own privileges and to reconsider the true purpose of my education — an opportunity that others fought so desperately for. I now feel a stronger obligation to use my access to education to advocate for greater equity and inclusion in academic spaces.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

Last call for registration

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Last chance to register is tomorrow by 8 pm ET. This is in person. We will be masked. Come at 12:30 pm for lunch. Register here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

Flyer for "Communiversity: Grassroots Fundraising for Organizers" facilitated by Mariame Kaba. Event on Oct 11, 1–4 PM in Brooklyn. Includes illustration of people, event details, QR code, and fundraising workshop info.

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 12h

Courtesy of Link himself

Fund Friday post :

Happy Friday Yall. Post fundraising links, cashapp links, whichever campaign needing help on . ♥️

Screenshot of a text message conversation on a purple background. The first message from AJ Link at 7:48 AM reads: “Howdy pals. Can I ask for a favor. If anyone has capacity or time today can they do a fund Friday post. I know lots of people need help.” This message has a heart reaction. The second message, also at 7:48 AM, replies: “Obviously what everyone does with their CPU is sacred. So no pressure.“

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