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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I mean it’s a subtle tongue. If you search up “styling 2015/2025” you get a bunch of images like this.

Same woman wearing a white shirt and jeans under two headings. One says 2015 and the white shirt and jeans are more fitted. One says 2024 and the white shirt and jeans are slightly boxier.

Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So excited to have this article finally out! “Democratic Organizing and Political Change: Toward a Research Agenda” written with my terrific colleagues Daniel Galvin, Ray Block Jr., and @hahrie.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

“Democracy depends on people having the capacity to act collectively and navigate difference, yet political science often overlooks the transformative work that enables this. This essay foregrounds democratic organizing: sustained, relational, and strategic work that transforms people – reshaping their identities, relationships, and sense of what is possible – while building the collective capacity needed to act together across difference and inequality. Distinct from mobilizing, it does so through sustained relational investment rather than episodic activation. Drawing on U.S. and global examples, we present a conceptual framework built around three analytically distinct principles: interdependence as the proper ontological unit of analysis, power with as the mode of collective capacity-building organizing produces, and the politics of possibility as an orientation toward democratic futurity that keeps people engaged when outcomes are uncertain. We situate these principles within existing scholarship on collective action and civic engagement, extending that literature to address what it has systematically overlooked. We then outline a concrete research agenda for studying organizing as a central engine of democratic development.”

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Very excited to share my latest article Meditations on a Politics of Futurity: A Black Feminist Repertoire muse.jhu.edu/article/993494

Article abstract screenshot: “Meditations on a Politics of Futurity” published in the journal Theory and Event. Text reads: This essay includes a political repertoire for thought and action rooted in Black feminism that I call a politics of futurity. It consists of four parts: purpose, strategy, tactics, and goal. The first builds on the politics of care that I developed in Reckoning. The second adapts and extends Saidiya Hartman's method of critical fabulation augmented by a notion of political fabrication. The third suggests tactics derived from the folkloric character of the Trickster. And the fourth forwards the goal of democratic redesign and reconstruction, which we can think of as worldbuilding.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Collaborative Research Grants CFP from Scholars for Social Justice. www.scholarsforsocialjustice.com/faji-2026

Photo of the landing website for FAJI Research Collaborative call for proposals.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

They called every couple of days since late March to try to catch me for the survey. I was curious so I took the call today. The carrier has apparently certified the number so I don’t think it was a hoax. Have others gotten these calls?

A screen shot of call log that says CDC NATL IMMUN with a verification check mark from carrier.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Have some yin yang puppies in the midst of all this chaos.

My two dogs Riley (a 25lb white schnoodle with black ears and black markings on his face) and Ella (a 25lb apricot cockapoo) laying cuddled in a yin yang position. They both died of natural causes last year, 10 months apart, both almost 18 years old. Photo prompted because the absolutely devastating iPhone reminder reel noted that this was taken 10 years ago today.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

There’s an old joke about someone who walks into a doctors office, contorts themselves into a strange shape and says “doc, it really hurts when I do that.” And the doctor says, “don’t do that.”

Ezra Klein article on AI: My experience of Anthropic’s Claude in recent months is that I’ll drop in a stub of a thought and immediately receive paragraphs of often elegant writing turning that intuition into something that looks, superficially, like a fully realized idea. It’s my impulse, but it has been recast and extended into something far more coherent. With each passing month, I have to expend more energy to recognize whether it’s fundamentally wrong or hollow.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thought this was funny. Also true.

Two pictures side by side with the heading “What it’s like to be a philosopher.” On the right side is a pic of an AI generated man with an exaggerated strong jaw and upper body physique smiling overconfidently. On the left is a picture of Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu in a sparkly gold ice skating bodice & skirt, skating joyfully with her hands open wide, her ponytail flipping in the wind and a big grin on her face.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

For my fellow Rhode Islanders amorri.org

Screenshot of the landing page for Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance (AMOR) Rhode Island.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Baseball seems super high drama these days. 18 innings??? And players that do this??? I don’t normally follow but must admit, I am intrigued.

Shohei Ohtani, a baseball player for the LA Dodgers, does a full split.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I have learned that is an axolotl (ak suh la tul) costume and that it is an actually existing endangered aquatic salamander that lives only in the canals of Mexico City. Saw several today&thought I would share in case you too thought this was some kind of anime reference you weren’t getting.

A axolotl costume at No Kings PVD 10/18/25

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I was by this purple thing and it was a really good dancer.

Some kind of purple anime creature at No Kings protest in Providence 10/18/25.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

32,000 in Providence on a gorgeous day!

Many people massed outside the RI state capitol for the No Kings Protest on Oct. 18 2025

A young woman stands dancing and holding a sign that says “No Kings since 1776. We are not going back.”

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This is interesting. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

A chart showing polling data on people’s feelings about AI usage in everyday life in 25 countries. Conducted by Pew Research published Oct. 2025.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Honestly, this is why we need a qualitative data lab. People are dunking on these folks or calling them stupid but they are *reasoning about politics* and in similar ways, it’s just really difficult to decipher & we don’t have the long form interview data at scale that we would need to get insight.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I don’t know how to explain it but this story is so purely a Xennial story.

Mariah Carey responds to interviewer asking her if she would go to space like Katy Perry with the quip: “I think I’ve done enough.”

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Now see, I believe this is true.

Fake NYT headline: “Zohran Mamdani Accidentally Replied All in the Neighborhood Google Group And Unleashed Chaos”

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It’s like YA Faerie fantasy, which is fine but the list description is just pics, like:

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966.
Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Standing in the rain with a couple thousand people in Providence shouting NO KINGS is such a ridiculous thing to have to do but here we ALL are across our towns, counties, cities, states, country, & around the 🌍 doing it.

A protestor dressed as the Rhode Island capital building dragging a bedraggled figure swathed in American flags.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Honestly this scolding is so hilarious. Do you think the people of BlueSky are generally not aware of or jittering mad enough about the nuclear dumpster fire of a political situation we’re in which you - an elected - seem not to be doing a damn thing about? Sasha, what the fuck are you doing here?

John Travolta in Face/Off during pivotal scene asking his partner Sasha, WTF she’s doing as she messes up the plan & blows their chance at survival/success.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

He looks like Steve Martin in the movie Leap of Faith.

Steve Martin in Leap of Faith (movie). His arms are raised & he is wearing a sparkly silver jacket to match his silver hair.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Interesting study of longitudinal data from the UK showing bright lower income kids fall behind in adolescence (not early childhood).

High-achieving children from low-income families have perhaps the best opportunity to break through the glass ceiling and achieve upwards social mobility.
Yet there have been relatively few studies investigating how key outcomes for this group develop throughout childhood, and how this compares to their equally able but more socio-economically advantaged peers. This paper draws upon Millenium Cohort Study data from the UK to provide new evidence on this issue. We find that the cognitive skills of bright 5-year-olds from low-income families keep pace with those of children from high-income families through to the end of primary school.
However, the transition into secondary is a critical period, with high-achieving children from poor families experiencing a particularly sharp relative decline in their attitudes towards school, behaviour, mental health and academic achievement between age 11 and 14. The failure to fully capitalise on the early potential of this group is likely to be a key reason why the UK is failing to become a more socially fluid society.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I was sent this image without comment. Iykyk.

The new Pope holding a large Italian Beef sandwich - trademark Chicago cuisine.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

My wonderful colleagues at New School have put together this terrific interdisciplinary conference celebrating 4 years of world-building work at the Mellon Initiative & I couldn’t be prouder & more honored to participate. If you’ll be in NYC on May 2-3, come thru!

Poster for The World As It Is: Celebrating Collective Transformation a conference at The New School registered at tincture.com/TheWorldAsItIs

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Around 5,000 in little Providence RI. It felt good.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I’m a social scientist but I always get obsessed w/ poetry when I start writing a book. So here’s something apt that I encountered today. Maybe it’ll resonate with you, too.

Incantation of the First Order by Rita Dove

Listen, no one signed up for this lullaby.
No bleeped sheep or rosebuds or twitching stars
will diminish the fear or save you from waking

into the same day you dreamed of leaving—
mockingbird on back order, morning bells
stuck on snooze—so you might as well

get up and at it, pestilence be damned.
Peril and risk having become relative,
I’ll try to couch this in positive terms:

Never! is the word of last resorts,
Always! the fanatic’s rallying cry.
To those inclined toward kindness, I say

Come out of your houses drumming. All others,
beware: I have discarded my smile but not my teeth.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This is the line to get a new membership at the Costco closest to me (45 min away). Lotta folks like me who are just outside comfortable driving distance but are finally getting a membership because it pairs nicely w/ support for labor & calling your reps everyday.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

As one of the commenters on IG said: “the times are bad but the memes are good.”

Black background and white letters that say: “Back in my day there was so much toilet paper and eggs that we would throw them at the houses of our enemies.”

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is Phyllis Fong. I very much respect that she made them physically remove her from her office, which remains hers by right, because she hasn’t been legally terminated.

Phyllis Fong, looking badass in a blue collared shirt w/ an expression that is determined and unamused.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is a genuinely wonderful thread of federal workers reacting to the fake buyout on Reddit. A highlight in the screen cap but click through to read the whole thing. It’ll warm your heart.

Screencap of a Reddit thread in which a federal worker recalls the part of civil servants and swears not to leave because they have a duty to defend the constitution & people of the U.S. from enemies foreign & domestic.

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