Akayla Lewis
youngsadhegelian.bsky.social
Akayla Lewis
@youngsadhegelian.bsky.social
Christian atheist, James Baldwin fanboy, Hegelian with an edge, PhD student in Philosophy & Religious Thought, Ice Cream Enthusiast
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Writing isn’t hard, what’s hard is spending hours every day confronting the fact that something you thought existed pure, complete, and crystalline inside your imagination was in fact just a loose collection of scraps and vibes that, it turns out, can not be effortlessly transcribed into prose.
March 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
A typical Saturday! #PhDStudent
March 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Average Monday POV. #PhDStudent #PhilosophyAndReligion
March 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Universities are facing the largest (extremely partisan) attack on their funding model in the modern era and we’re still writing pieces like this? Feels like fighting the last war.

Vanderbilt (whose provost is a co-author of this opinion piece) is slashing their grad programs.
February 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Few people know this but you can turn off your phone and read a book
February 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Yesterday, I presented on Afrofuturism and the risk of faith at the Race & Religion Lecture Series at the Claremont Colleges Chaplains Office. I love yapping about philosophy.
February 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Today we grind.
February 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Oops 😬
February 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM