Dear Colleagues,

         Hope this finds you well.  Please share the attached flier and message below with your community:

         We look forward to another energetic fun filled semester in Sit N Write.  Attached is our flier with the intake form.   Please complete the intake form no later than August 17, 2026, at 3 PM.  This will help us to set up for August 21, at 9:30 AM.

          Sit N Write is a campus community-based initiative that seeks to foster a safe bold writing and research accountability space for faculty, staff, and advanced graduate students.  We look forward to supporting one another in developing and completing projects that advance the mission of Queens College and CUNY while positively impacting our classrooms.

         In preparation for our first meeting, we would like to encourage you to begin considering your goals for the semester both inside and outside of the classroom.  We will spend 90 minutes reviewing and fine tuning our semester plan at the start of our first workshop. 

         As a guide, please allow us to share the attached step-by-step guide to planning a balanced semester.  For those interested in a head start on this,  you may view : https://vimeo.com/133385186 .  We will be using an updated version of this video.  It is shared for practice purposes.  You may also wish to view the template for semester planning here: ​Updated Every Semester Needs a Plan Handout (1).doc​

     Feel free to write to me here if you have any questions or concerns.  We look forward to seeing everyone soon and wish you a continued peaceful and restful summer break.

Nat

Natanya Duncan, PhD 

Director, QC Africana Studies 

Associate Professor of History

Author of: An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

2025 Winner,  Letitia Woods Brown Best Book Prize,  Association of Black Women Historians

2025 Short-listed,  Stone Book Award,  Museum of African American History

2026 Short-listed,  ASALH Book Prize,  Association for the Study of African American Life and History

 

“Black intellectual practice not as an approach to omniscience but as a perpetual desire activated in community as community.”

Alexis Pauline Gumbs 
 

“The burden of working for racial justice is laid on the very people bearing the brunt of the injustice, and not the powerful people who maintain it. I say to you: I refuse." 

Nikole Hannah-Jones 

 

"Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy." Elizabeth Fox-Genovese