On the occasion of receiving the Wilbur L. Cross Medal for Distinguished Alumni, one of Yale’s highest honors, Donna J. Haraway gave a public lecture demonstrating the power of narratives that bring together biology, activism, and art. In the lecture, Haraway describes a series of “contact zones” that reveal practices for becoming worldly in a time of unprecedented environmental destruction. Donna Haraway writes: Every time I give a talk, listening to what I said, I am embarrassed by the central and key citations I did not do, here prominently to Susan Harding and also Marco Harding for all the research, conversations, references and thinking about diverse Inuit worlds and people, especially about Sila, hunting, relational human & nonhuman personhood through living on the land, and the design of the Wear Qisi/Become Seal in 8th slide. For me, the image and the discussion were initiated by Susan and fleshed out with her, Paulette Metuq, Kevin O'Connor, and Marisol de la Cadena, partly on Facebook but growing out of Susan and Marco Harding's and Kevin O'Connor's participation in Bush School in Pangnirtung in summer 2015, resulting in the collaboration with Paulette Metuq. Also, the 1st slide is a design by Sandra Dieckmann, “Ouroborus of the Witches," used in the Women's Marches in January 2017. With apologies, I am sure I missed other important citations critical to the talk, but these are crucial. The fact that talks go online makes citing explicitly even more important as the unwritten talks with all their gaps and missing sources circulate. Please include these citations if you share the video.

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