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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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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 5h

Ginuwine hitting the Make Contact gesture to communicate with the Old Ones

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 5h

Spent the evening capturing the Soul Nebula to stave off the Sunday Scaries 🔭📷🧪

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 11h

Do you have access to a 3d printer? You can make whistles to help protect your neighbors pretty easily; this model on makerworld is public domain & 120db+ makerworld.com/en/models/41... for folks with Bambu printers

Here's another on printables www.printables.com/model/65-whi...

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 6h

I'm reading Akane-banashi weekly too, it's definitely incredible! Also doing Cafe Terrace Goddeses and Blue Box; I tried Witch Watch when it started and should catch up now that it's made some progress!

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 6h

pulled this from the archives before the 2023 season

meme of Jim Harbaugh in Warhammer armor:
'JIM HARBAUGH RETURNING FOR 402023 SEASON | I love the relationships that I have at Michigan - coaches, staff, families, administration, President Santa Ono and especially the players and their families. My heart is at the University of Michigan. I once heard a wise man say, "Don't try to out-happy, happy." Go Blue! - Jim Harbaugh, J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 7h

Another thing regarding mutual aid & who your community is, is a lot of disabled people in particular are very isolated. They're in deep poverty & complete abandonment. Literally. So they hop online to have community. Sometimes it's the only community they have & the only way they can get help.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 7h

absolutely can be - 1 whistle was only about 28 minutes at regular speed!

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 7h

ooh that's a good one to go back to! I watched the anime forever ago and read some of the manga back in the Borders days, might be worth picking up. I recently read Cross Game and re-read Touch so I've already had some retro vibes going

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 8h

looking back I never questioned having a bed skirt that sounded like Dollar Tree tissue paper, glad I didn't know better lol

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 8h

Annoyingly so, according to my spouse! It's a bit bananas but largely just due to different formats; the ARC and Theory of Water are paperbacks, and I usually keep a heavy and light audiobook read at any given time. When I'm going out to do photography work I'm usually reading along the way 😂

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 8h

NF: Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes & co, still pulling myself through Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
F: Witch King by Martha Wells, and a romance to be decided at random tomorrow lol

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 8h

hang in there Jen, birds need us to stay tuftie tuff 😤

a pretty and round tufted titmouse against an autumnal bokeh background

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 8h

I went with the Dwarf 3 because it's also got wide-angle capabilities for potential birding shenanigans, fwiw!

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 9h

it was really good, couldn't put it down! read anything good lately? I'm caught up on all my current things I think

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 9h

Hanna-Barbera-ass player (complementary)

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 9h

giving in to just being a weepy punching bag of feelings this week, so if you have any manga recs (no isekais but nearly everything else goes) I'd gladly take them

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 9h

I read a really good but melancholy emotional manga this morning (If I Could Reach You) and wanted to watch a yakuza flick as a changeup for something less heartwrenching; decided to finally watch Fireworks (hana-bi) by Beat Takeshi and that was a big mistake!

a cartoon of a hamster crying with tears coming out of its eyes .

Alt: crying hamtaro

media.tenor.com

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james @james.claims · 9h

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 9h

check the lens status

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 9h

"Let me show him his graaave"

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 9h

happy birthday @totallydonna.kitrocha.com ✨💓

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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 13d

hey y'all!!

my artist-sister-friend has created a BEAUTIFUL card deck & dice set rooted in the liberatory practices and guidance of our ancestors.

i had a chance to use a proto & want a set real bad, so please support this kickstarter!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

How We Be Free: a Black fugitive study kit

Playing cards, dice and dynamic Black study... guided by the legacies and practices of freedom-seeking ancestors.

www.kickstarter.com

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 12h

SO many neighbors out in RP today!

There is so much horror. And also, countless people in our neighborhood and across our magical city, Chicago, are demonstrating, every day, a loving and fierce dedication to keep each other safe.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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