David Delgado Shorter
@davidshorter.bsky.social
Professor, UCLA. Editor-in-Chief, American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Curator, settler on Tongva land, Digital Publisher, Science of the Paranormal, colonialisms, including extra-terrestrialilty. Www.davidshorter.com
Communicating across species is more like a state one enters, not an action one has to force.
Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.
Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Communicating across species is more like a state one enters, not an action one has to force.
Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.
Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.
I cannot recommend this book strong enough. Wolf helps us understand the current political and educational crises unlike any other because she connects the far apart dots of reading physical books/printed media and society’s slide away from empathy and reason. Get the actual book. Seriously.
October 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I cannot recommend this book strong enough. Wolf helps us understand the current political and educational crises unlike any other because she connects the far apart dots of reading physical books/printed media and society’s slide away from empathy and reason. Get the actual book. Seriously.
We Are Colonizing Space (an Excerpt)
Dr. David Shorter has been a regular commentator on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space exploration. Both activities, he says, are currently duplicating the previous prejudices and egocentrism that caused widespread violence on earth.
Dr. David Shorter has been a regular commentator on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space exploration. Both activities, he says, are currently duplicating the previous prejudices and egocentrism that caused widespread violence on earth.
September 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We Are Colonizing Space (an Excerpt)
Dr. David Shorter has been a regular commentator on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space exploration. Both activities, he says, are currently duplicating the previous prejudices and egocentrism that caused widespread violence on earth.
Dr. David Shorter has been a regular commentator on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and space exploration. Both activities, he says, are currently duplicating the previous prejudices and egocentrism that caused widespread violence on earth.
Nothing to see here.
August 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Nothing to see here.
In a round table with artists, curanderos, and scientists, Dr. Shorter discusses ways we must reorient ourselves for planetary health. The West is a construct; as is the notion that one culture (“Native People”) has all the answers. Those are both built upon prejudices.
youtu.be/JktIe15LttI?...
youtu.be/JktIe15LttI?...
June 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In a round table with artists, curanderos, and scientists, Dr. Shorter discusses ways we must reorient ourselves for planetary health. The West is a construct; as is the notion that one culture (“Native People”) has all the answers. Those are both built upon prejudices.
youtu.be/JktIe15LttI?...
youtu.be/JktIe15LttI?...
I’m floored that a student’s dad made t shirts for my Aliens, Psychics, Ghost class. His explanation is chef’s kiss.
To buy one and support humane society:
1111dimensions.printful.me
To buy one and support humane society:
1111dimensions.printful.me
June 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I’m floored that a student’s dad made t shirts for my Aliens, Psychics, Ghost class. His explanation is chef’s kiss.
To buy one and support humane society:
1111dimensions.printful.me
To buy one and support humane society:
1111dimensions.printful.me
Press Release: May 22, 2025
Dr. David Delgado Shorter has been awarded an Institute of American Culture Research Grant for his project, “Archiving Los Angeles’ Cultural Heritage.” www.instagram.com/p/DJ9VSfiRlP...
Dr. David Delgado Shorter has been awarded an Institute of American Culture Research Grant for his project, “Archiving Los Angeles’ Cultural Heritage.” www.instagram.com/p/DJ9VSfiRlP...
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Press Release: May 22, 2025
Dr. David Delgado Shorter has been awarded an Institute of American Culture Research Grant for his project, “Archiving Los Angeles’ Cultural Heritage.” www.instagram.com/p/DJ9VSfiRlP...
Dr. David Delgado Shorter has been awarded an Institute of American Culture Research Grant for his project, “Archiving Los Angeles’ Cultural Heritage.” www.instagram.com/p/DJ9VSfiRlP...
2025 marks a new beginning for me: ONE Unifying Website! It melds the multidimensional aspects of my life into one professional website. Working with artist / designer Katie Fang, we created a new all encompassing website, bringing David Shorter, the Professor, Author, Reiki Sensei and Curator.
May 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
2025 marks a new beginning for me: ONE Unifying Website! It melds the multidimensional aspects of my life into one professional website. Working with artist / designer Katie Fang, we created a new all encompassing website, bringing David Shorter, the Professor, Author, Reiki Sensei and Curator.
Wow!! Truly honored.
UCLA created this year the first ever Award for Graduate Student Mentoring Excellence. And I’m one of the finalists!!
I know this means a collection of current and previous graduate students had to prepare a tedious nomination package with letters etc. They rock.
UCLA created this year the first ever Award for Graduate Student Mentoring Excellence. And I’m one of the finalists!!
I know this means a collection of current and previous graduate students had to prepare a tedious nomination package with letters etc. They rock.
April 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Wow!! Truly honored.
UCLA created this year the first ever Award for Graduate Student Mentoring Excellence. And I’m one of the finalists!!
I know this means a collection of current and previous graduate students had to prepare a tedious nomination package with letters etc. They rock.
UCLA created this year the first ever Award for Graduate Student Mentoring Excellence. And I’m one of the finalists!!
I know this means a collection of current and previous graduate students had to prepare a tedious nomination package with letters etc. They rock.
Just published! I share my near death experience for the first time publicly.
Check out my YouTube channel for full story: youtu.be/0gjOBb3-EW0?...
Follow @theothersidende
#paranormal #outofbodyexperience #neardeathexperience
Check out my YouTube channel for full story: youtu.be/0gjOBb3-EW0?...
Follow @theothersidende
#paranormal #outofbodyexperience #neardeathexperience
April 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Just published! I share my near death experience for the first time publicly.
Check out my YouTube channel for full story: youtu.be/0gjOBb3-EW0?...
Follow @theothersidende
#paranormal #outofbodyexperience #neardeathexperience
Check out my YouTube channel for full story: youtu.be/0gjOBb3-EW0?...
Follow @theothersidende
#paranormal #outofbodyexperience #neardeathexperience
Dr. David Delgado Shorter will lead a workshop on the diverse modalities of healing in the Koreatown Latine community, which includes bonesetters, limpias, botanicas, and curanderismo, which incorporates folk medicine, scientific medicine, and spiritual practices.
February 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Dr. David Delgado Shorter will lead a workshop on the diverse modalities of healing in the Koreatown Latine community, which includes bonesetters, limpias, botanicas, and curanderismo, which incorporates folk medicine, scientific medicine, and spiritual practices.
This Saturday: "Mutualista: Towards a New Cosmic Methodology" at 1pm. An experiment to develop an interdisciplinary approach for addressing the planet’s current existential condition. Dr. Shorter has written about cross-species communication, and el curanderismo. RSVP at @armoryarts.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This Saturday: "Mutualista: Towards a New Cosmic Methodology" at 1pm. An experiment to develop an interdisciplinary approach for addressing the planet’s current existential condition. Dr. Shorter has written about cross-species communication, and el curanderismo. RSVP at @armoryarts.bsky.social
“Which endeavors can help us practice those ways of existing that address and heal the hostile environments? . . . to focus on the resilience, the vitality, and the practicality of Indigenous knowledge and expertise.” -Craig Torres (Tongva)
seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...
seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...
January 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“Which endeavors can help us practice those ways of existing that address and heal the hostile environments? . . . to focus on the resilience, the vitality, and the practicality of Indigenous knowledge and expertise.” -Craig Torres (Tongva)
seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...
seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...
Just published!
“If we are to avoid continued environmental collapse, we must decolonize our sense of the possible, to deverticalize our worldview, which commonly positions Western educated humans as above all other forms of intelligent life.”
seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...
“If we are to avoid continued environmental collapse, we must decolonize our sense of the possible, to deverticalize our worldview, which commonly positions Western educated humans as above all other forms of intelligent life.”
seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...
January 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just published!
“If we are to avoid continued environmental collapse, we must decolonize our sense of the possible, to deverticalize our worldview, which commonly positions Western educated humans as above all other forms of intelligent life.”
seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...
“If we are to avoid continued environmental collapse, we must decolonize our sense of the possible, to deverticalize our worldview, which commonly positions Western educated humans as above all other forms of intelligent life.”
seeds.armoryarts.org/david-delgad...
“…If you want to start asking yourself how to Indigenize or unsettle anything like your professional field, ask yourself how you’re benefiting from the colonial structures that made that field possible and that make it continue.”
uchri.org/foundry/on-a...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:49 PM
“…If you want to start asking yourself how to Indigenize or unsettle anything like your professional field, ask yourself how you’re benefiting from the colonial structures that made that field possible and that make it continue.”
uchri.org/foundry/on-a...
uchri.org/foundry/on-a...
Just published! With the support of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time funding, I interviewed Tongva elder, Craig Torres about Indigenous knowledge, relatedness, and ethical collaborations. This book is now available here:
armory-center-for-the-arts.square.site
armory-center-for-the-arts.square.site
September 9, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Just published! With the support of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time funding, I interviewed Tongva elder, Craig Torres about Indigenous knowledge, relatedness, and ethical collaborations. This book is now available here:
armory-center-for-the-arts.square.site
armory-center-for-the-arts.square.site
I am excited for the opening of a show years in the making for which I served as Researcher-in-Practice. Soon I'll share news of my essay and interviews with Craig Torres (Tongva) and Leah Garza. From the Ground Up is part of Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide. Exhibition Opening: Sep 8, 1:00pm.
September 3, 2024 at 11:43 PM
I am excited for the opening of a show years in the making for which I served as Researcher-in-Practice. Soon I'll share news of my essay and interviews with Craig Torres (Tongva) and Leah Garza. From the Ground Up is part of Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide. Exhibition Opening: Sep 8, 1:00pm.
Just two weeks away from the Ethnographies of Outer Space conference in Krakow, Poland with more than two dozen presenters assembled and remotely connecting space, science, technology, and more.
August 28, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Just two weeks away from the Ethnographies of Outer Space conference in Krakow, Poland with more than two dozen presenters assembled and remotely connecting space, science, technology, and more.
Forthcoming! 🔔
In mid-July we will be publishing
our second issue with exciting new scholarship on Land Trusts in Northern California, Taxation, Collaborative Curatorial Practices, Osage Political Relationality, Indigenous Marxism and more! Stay tuned to this account! 🔔
In mid-July we will be publishing
our second issue with exciting new scholarship on Land Trusts in Northern California, Taxation, Collaborative Curatorial Practices, Osage Political Relationality, Indigenous Marxism and more! Stay tuned to this account! 🔔
July 6, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Forthcoming! 🔔
In mid-July we will be publishing
our second issue with exciting new scholarship on Land Trusts in Northern California, Taxation, Collaborative Curatorial Practices, Osage Political Relationality, Indigenous Marxism and more! Stay tuned to this account! 🔔
In mid-July we will be publishing
our second issue with exciting new scholarship on Land Trusts in Northern California, Taxation, Collaborative Curatorial Practices, Osage Political Relationality, Indigenous Marxism and more! Stay tuned to this account! 🔔
LOS ANGELES (June 24, 2024) – California Humanities recently announced their Spring awards. Koreatown Storytelling Program was awarded $25,000 for its project entitled “Traditional Healing Arts in Koreatown” to work with Dr. David Shorter and the Archive of Healing!
June 24, 2024 at 11:22 PM
LOS ANGELES (June 24, 2024) – California Humanities recently announced their Spring awards. Koreatown Storytelling Program was awarded $25,000 for its project entitled “Traditional Healing Arts in Koreatown” to work with Dr. David Shorter and the Archive of Healing!
Just accepted to the Ethnographies of Outer Space conference hosted by the European Assoc for the Study of Science and Technology. Wish I could make it to Krakow but classes start and an exhibit I helped curate opens at the Getty. See ya on Zoom I hope! tinyurl.com/3czc8ah7
June 18, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Just accepted to the Ethnographies of Outer Space conference hosted by the European Assoc for the Study of Science and Technology. Wish I could make it to Krakow but classes start and an exhibit I helped curate opens at the Getty. See ya on Zoom I hope! tinyurl.com/3czc8ah7
Chomsky wrote me an unsolicited email in 2012 as I was being slandered for teaching about Palestine. He said it was a shame how @UCLA was treating me, that it was a sign of things to come, and to be steadfast. Rarely are scholars so generous with other (unfamiliar) scholars. RIP.
June 18, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Chomsky wrote me an unsolicited email in 2012 as I was being slandered for teaching about Palestine. He said it was a shame how @UCLA was treating me, that it was a sign of things to come, and to be steadfast. Rarely are scholars so generous with other (unfamiliar) scholars. RIP.
Job! UCLA American Indian Studies Center seeks new Deputy Director! universityofcalifornia.marketpayjobs.com/ShowJob.aspx...
June 17, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Job! UCLA American Indian Studies Center seeks new Deputy Director! universityofcalifornia.marketpayjobs.com/ShowJob.aspx...
I'll be speaking at Environmental Justice in Space Workshop on Jun 20 - 21, 2024. I would love to see you there!🎉🎉
Register here: whova.com/portal/registr…
- vi#Whovava Event Platform
Register here: whova.com/portal/registr…
- vi#Whovava Event Platform
June 8, 2024 at 4:43 AM
I'll be speaking at Environmental Justice in Space Workshop on Jun 20 - 21, 2024. I would love to see you there!🎉🎉
Register here: whova.com/portal/registr…
- vi#Whovava Event Platform
Register here: whova.com/portal/registr…
- vi#Whovava Event Platform
Call for papers for a special issue on Alien encounter narratives in judicial proceedings. Contact info on image.
June 4, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Call for papers for a special issue on Alien encounter narratives in judicial proceedings. Contact info on image.