{"id":6901,"date":"2009-06-30T06:14:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2009-06-30T06:33:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:33:56","slug":"open-letter-to-the-signing-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/open-letter-to-the-signing-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to the Signing Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open Letter to the Signing Community<\/p>\n<p>Dear readers:<\/p>\n<p>Remember The Tactile Mind Weekly? Well, the same people who brought you that wildly popular e-zine are now about to launch a new email publication for the signing community!<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.clercscar.com<\/p>\n<p>Clerc Scar will publish essays, poetry, fiction, and artwork that will, as we sign it in ASL slang, &#8220;scar&#8221; your minds! Instead of multiple pieces in one long email message, each item will appear in its own email message, allowing you to keep, delete, and forward exactly what you want to keep, delete, or forward. Everything will be archived online as well. We will start firing away on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>We are also opening a small online bookstore specializing in the most important signing community books and videos. All sales will support the email publication.<\/p>\n<p>We will need your support. Here are some ways you can support this venture:<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe. Just email subscribe@clercscar.com with the word &#8220;Yes!&#8221; if you want us to add you to our mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>Encourage others to subscribe. Forward this message to as many people as you can. Once we start publishing on July 1, forward the pieces you like the best to your friends.<\/p>\n<p>Write. We consider any topic and any style, but it should be related to our community in some way. Also, we accept letters to the editor in response to our pieces. Send to editor@clercscar.com.<\/p>\n<p>Refer others to us. If you are on some listserves and someone writes a really good post that, with some editing, would make for a great article, forward it to us. If you&#8217;re in a conversation with friends, and someone makes a great point or tells a funny story, encourage that person to write it down and send it to us. If you read somewhere a great piece and you think that a larger audience should read it too, we will be happy to consider reprinting it. The same goes for visual art.<\/p>\n<p>Shop at our bookstore. In the beginning, we&#8217;ll start with a few books but will add on more titles. Please feel free to recommend books and videos to us. We will publish book reviews, too.<\/p>\n<p>We are very excited about this and hope you are, too!<\/p>\n<p>John Lee Clark<br \/>\nText Editor<\/p>\n<p>Adrean Clark<br \/>\nVisual Art Editor<br \/>\nEmail: cs@clercscar.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Letter to the Signing Community Dear readers: Remember The Tactile Mind Weekly? Well, the same people who brought you that wildly popular e-zine are now about to launch a new email publication for the signing community! http:\/\/www.clercscar.com Clerc Scar&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/open-letter-to-the-signing-community\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[171,23,175,35,173,44,176,172,174],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news","tag-arrtwork","tag-asl","tag-book","tag-community","tag-fiction","tag-online","tag-open-letter","tag-petry","tag-the-tactile-mind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-1Nj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2896,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/austin-asl-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":6901,"position":0},"title":"Austin ASL Night","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"February 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Austin ASL Night ASL Night, Food Court at Barton Creek Square Mall on 3rd Friday of every month from 7 pm to 9 pm. 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