Leah Kaye Laird
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Leah Kaye Laird
@leahkayel.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Research: semiotics | translation theory | dehumanics | cognitive dissonance theory
Minister | PhD | Chef | Historic Building Restoration Hobbyest
“Empty/unoccupied/unihabitted Land” is a colonizer’s phrase used to steal occupied land and commit genocide.
July 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Eagles of Civilization, amazing band name!
May 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
More than a few years ago I wrote a thing. It speaks to empire, migration, and the use of language to undermine segments of a population.
I’m slowly editing it for publication, but the dissertation form is available online.

archive.org/details/lair...
Pilagsim in the Deuteronomistic History: Colonialism, Immigration, Repatriation, and Indigenous Populations in the Persian Period : Leah K. Laird : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Arch...
2020 PhD Dissertation
archive.org
May 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Current project: rebuilding a door.
It has a glass panel that slides up and down between two panels and a permanent screen (removed and leaning against the wall). It has been repaired multiple times in the last 70 or so years and now pieces need to be rebuilt completely.
January 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Readings?
Open for suggestions
Mine
Recent:
Caste, Wilkerson - research for dehumanics
Black AF History, Harriot - history review
Working:
War & Peace, Tolstoy - not sure
Worlds in Shadow, Nunn - interdisciplinary reading
Future:
Sister Outsider, Lorde
The Sorrows of Empire, Johnson
January 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM