Donna Haraway, “Making Oddkin: Story Telling for Earthly Survival”

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 c