This Friday, October 3, 2025, Eric Silberberg will share tips and best practices for using Zotero. We will also take time to explore how best to engage students in healthy citation practices in the classroom with a review of RefWorks. We would like all interested to join us for this morning workshop that will be followed by our bi-weekly Friday meeting. If you have not registered for Sit N Write and would still like to do so, please complete our brief intake form : SitNWriteF25<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2OEKtVO1PFNAnySO1aEtgZNUOEc2WkVGR1o3S081QUlOUkRLNFlaRVlMQS4u&route=shorturl> SAVE THE DATE OCTOBER 17, 2025 PH 333 9:30 AM Sit N Write will host Professor Shanna Greene Benjamin of Wake Forest University and Dawn Duarte of Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director University of North Carolina Press on October 17, 2025, from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM for “The Art of the Proposal” in PH 333. If you are not already a Sit N Write participant, we kindly ask that you complete our intake form, SitNWriteF25<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2OEKtVO1PFNAnySO1aEtgZNUOEc2WkVGR1o3S081QUlOUkRLNFlaRVlMQS4u&route=shorturl>, so that you may be registered for the Hy-Flex session. Prof. Greene and Ms. Duarte will take live questions. Should you have proposals in draft form or questions you wish to have addressed as a part of the workshop, please send them to nduncan@qc.cuny.edu<mailto:nduncan@qc.cuny.edu> with the subject line: “Book Proposal” no later than October 15, 2025 at Noon. Our workshop will be followed in the afternoon by our bi-weekly Friday meeting. If you have not registered for Sit N Write and would still like to do so, please complete our brief intake form : SitNWriteF25<https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2OEKtVO1PFNAnySO1aEtgZNUOEc2WkVGR1o3S081QUlOUkRLNFlaRVlMQS4u&route=shorturl> Fliers for both events are attached. We do hope you are able to join us. Happy Wednesday Everyone! Natanya Duncan, PhD Director, QC Africana Studies Associate Professor of History [cid:93ec62f9-10ec-4261-b592-6b695bfcca34] “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