Colleagues, On February 14, 2025, at 9:30 Am Sit 'n' Write/Publish & Flourish will host a workshop on writing and publishing opinion editorials with Dr. David M. Perry<https://www.davidmperry.com/> . You are strongly encouraged to bring ideas, works in progress, as well as questions to the workshop. Dr. Perry has published Op Ed pieces with several major news outlets as well as in local and regional print and digital news mediums. This workshop will present a step-by-step guide to writing, submitting and best practices for negotiating the publication of your piece. To register to join us in person in PH 333 please complete this form: OPEDSP25<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2OEKtVO1PFNAnySO1aEtgZNUNjdIQlBWRVFNNVBOM0FIUEgxV04xU003Si4u&route=shorturl> by February 7, 2025, at 5 PM. If you wish to join us via Zoom, please feel free to register using the Sit N Write Link attached to the flier: QC Spring 25 Sit’n’Write<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4ut0pqV-QVaZXGtCQhvrqQ#/registration> We look forward to having you join us. We thank QC's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership for their support of Publish & Flourish. Sincerely, Natanya Duncan, PhD Director QC Africana Studies Associate Professor of History [cid:07c1ebf2-f5db-4d3a-b1ff-a3b9325b957c] “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