Good Day Everyone, Hope this finds you enjoying the last days of break and gearing up for the new semester. We will resume our Sit N Write workshops officially starting Sept 6, 2024, at 10 AM. To help launch us, we will have a virtual morning workshop "Thriving in Times of Stress" with Dr. Roxanne Donovan of Kennesaw State University and founder of Well Academic<https://www.wellacademic.com/>. The workshop will focus on balancing the demands of the classroom while navigating a research and scholarship agenda. Dr. Donovan will explore hands-on techniques to manage competing demands, like those of teaching and scholarship, as well as work and family. Please plan to attend with writing utensils for long-hand exercises. Our time with Dr. Donovan will end and noon. We will break for lunch and then move to our annual "Every Semester Needs a Plan" working session. For those interested, we will view a step-by-step guide to planning out 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: [https://res-h3.public.cdn.office.net/assets/mail/file-icon/png/docx_16x16.pn...] Updated Every Semester Needs a Plan Handout (1).doc<https://cuny907.sharepoint.com/:w:/s/sitnwritesp2024/EexMT3gkHI5HtTWBB45ZCX0BUXqC9iNh2TGM2uE6JwiLgQ> This term, to help streamline things, we are using one registration link for both Publish and Flourish and Sit N Write. Whether you attend via Zoom or in person, you are asked to register for the Zoom link. Once registered, you will receive our Sit n Write Intake form that will ask you to state your preference for in-person or virtual participation. We strongly encourage in-person participation where possible. Our September 6, 2024 workshop (by request of the facilitator) will be exclusively virtual. Attached are fliers for Sit n Write and "Thriving in Times of Stress." Please register no later than Noon on September 5, 2024, so that Dr. Donovan may have a head count for the Friday, September 6 workshop. Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at nduncan@qc.cuny.edu . Sincerely, Nat Natanya Duncan, PhD Director QC Africana Studies Associate Professor of History [cid:1e34b219-c500-4d22-aeaa-ec8b889ff005] “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