Deva Woodly

@devawo

Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

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Deva Woodly@devawo· Jul 14

Hi Mmy [strikergrough] Mom. don’t give up! Maybe go to your office at brown then you might get work done better. I [drawn heart] U Mom.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jun 30

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· May 23

Screenshot of post from serendipimoose

“Realized that my attitude toward AI is this quote from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe: “But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” —C.S. Lewis

Deva Woodly@devawo· Apr 25

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Apr 12

SPACE HUGS

4 member crew of ship Integrity in a weightless embrace in space.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Apr 11

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Mar 31

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Mar 29

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Mar 17

This is insane.

By Maxine Joselow
Reporting by Washington Post
Article linked below

Deva Woodly@devawo· Mar 17

A view of downtown Chicago - bright skyscrapers on the water.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Feb 26

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jan 22

A poem by Lucille Clifton that reads:

In the geometry of knowing/we have no new thing/to tell/only the same old/almanac/January/ love one another/ February/ whatever you sow/you will reap

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jan 22

For my fellow Rhode Islanders amorri.org

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

Deva Woodly@devawo· Dec 31

An old man wearing a banner that says 2025 is looking down at a child wearing a banner that says 2026. The old man 2025 has a speech bubble above his head that says: “It’s a shit gig kid.”

Deva Woodly@devawo· Nov 13

Rhianna, looking disheveled as she exits a car grasping a laptop.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Nov 11

The pressure of losing that Christmas money in the economy eded the Government Shutdown. Be not deceived.

Walmart gets plenty of food stamp money, & airlines get what’s left. They saw the losses in holiday air & interstate travel across so many industries from oil to food to all the retail in between.

It only works if everybody keeps consuming. It all falls apart because the wealthy don’t spend they only profit from convincing us to do so at every turn.

So no, those democrats who conceded ain’t exactly getting nothing they just didn’t get it for the people, they got it as a win for the cascaded suffering of businesses in their districts (and some in their pockets too). That’s the real trickle down economics. There’s a benefit but you won’t hardly feel it on its fall from the mountain tops.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Oct 28

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Oct 19

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

Deva Woodly@devawo· Oct 18

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.”

Deva Woodly@devawo· Oct 18

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Sep 25

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Aug 7

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.”

Deva Woodly@devawo· Aug 6

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jul 8

Now see, I believe this is true.

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

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jul 2

Hmm. Interesting.

Gov. Hochul (D, NY) post on X (screenshot): “I don’t care if you’re the President of the United States, if you threaten to unlawfully go after one of our neighbors, you’re picking a fight with 20 million New Yorkers - starting with me.”

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jun 20

A 4 panel Strange Planet comic strip with two characters who look like aliens speaking to one another. One is seater in a parked car, the other is standing. Panel 1: Greetings being, how are you? // Could be inferior Panel 2: And how are you? // I could imagine my situation deteriorating Panel 3: …But I am trying not to dwell on that // It requires mental discipline Panel 4: Hope you can properly balance hypothetical futures // You too my friend!

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jun 18

A drawing of the character Sarah Connor, hero of the Terminator movie franchise, with a half smoked cigarette in hand looking pissed & pensive.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jun 16

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

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jun 14

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.

Deva Woodly@devawo· Jun 14

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.