Applied Mechanics

RITES OF PASSAGE

On January 24th, we were honored to have a great turnout for our RITES OF PASSAGE party, in which we initiated partygoers into a fantastic cult. Amid exotic home-made culinary delights as well as food generously donated by Pizza Brain, guests were: Welcomed at the door by the mysterious Super E, played by the stunning

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Pumpkin Stew and Love, CCNH Style.

Applied Mechanics hosted our third Community Dinner on Nov 9th. Thanks so much for coming out everyone! For this installment, we were so lucky to be hosted by Christ Church Neighborhood House and the wonderful Anna Drozdowski.  The Mechanicians and some of our lovely new associated artists spent lots of time in the kitchen chopping, mixing, and cooking for the affair.

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Transcendentalism + Feminism + Art + Rebecca Wright = HAPPINESS: Becky at NELP

I have spent the last seven weeks teaching at the New England Literature Program. In some ways, NELP has a lot to do with the work we do in Applied Mechanics: the work is collaborative (13 instructors work together in an elaborate consensus-based labor share to make the program happen,) immersive (we study New England

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Sisterhood and Solidarity

By Mary Tuomanen Pariticipating in the RIOT development process has made me pick up all kinds of books I would normally have passed over. While visiting my family over vacation, I walked out of a used bookstore in Newmarket, New Hampshire with this title: “Sisterhood and Solidarity: Feminism and Labor in Modern Times”, by Diane

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RIOT

by Jessica Hurley I’m a feminist. In saying that, I’ve been laughed at by members of my family, argued down by boys in college, left open to accusations of not being able to take a joke, a compliment, a touch. I have thin skin, apparently, and it only gets rawer with each unwanted stare, eyes

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The Community Dinner!

The Community Dinner was a raging success. We were delighted and moved by how many people came. People came early and stayed late. People brought their dogs and their babies. People laughed loud and sat at long tables. Everybody ate. So many folks pitched in to help make this happen. Six households lent us folding

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