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'''Cora Birk''' was the alter ego of the [[Rec.arts.bodyart|RAB]]'s infamous [[Yttrx|yttrx]], and was the author of [[BMEZINE.COM|BME]]'s [http://www.bmezine.com/news/shapeshift-all.html Shapeshift] Column. Cora described herself as:
A '''circular barbell''' is a common variation of the straight [[Barbell]]. It is bent fully into the shape of a ring, with one or both ends [[Threading|threaded]] to accept a bead.


This jewelry design is also sometimes called a "three quarter bar" (because it is about three quarters of a circle).
    ...a 30 something pre-op [[Transsexual|transsexual]] living in New England. She's chosen a loose bodyart-as-aesthetic model to describe her full-body-concept transformation, squarely defining the shapeshift for herself as extreme modification for spiritual, psychological, physical and emotional reasons. Cora likes small cats and big dogs, as well as olives, China Mieville, Concrete Blonde and bowling shoes. She dislikes labels of all kinds, particularly ones of sexual preference and identity, though she recognizes their importance in the vein of communication and understanding and therefore ends up using them quite a lot, especially in reference to herself.


== Alternative Names ==
[Among other things, Cora was] a UNIX systems administrator at a liberal arts university in Massachusetts, as well as a writer and a freelance aesthete.
[[File:HorseshoeBarbell.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Horseshoe]]
; Horseshoe Barbell
: While no longer a common style of jewelry, in the early 1990s, horseshoe barbells were more literally horseshoe shaped (like a circular barbell where the end segments are straight) as seen in the image above.


== See Also ==
==See Also==
* [[Curved Barbell]]
* [http://www.bmezine.com/news/shapeshift-all.html Shapeshift Series]
* [[Barbell]]
* [[Captive Bead Ring]]

Latest revision as of 02:00, 17 September 2023

Cora Birk was the alter ego of the RAB's infamous yttrx, and was the author of BME's Shapeshift Column. Cora described herself as:

   ...a 30 something pre-op transsexual living in New England. She's chosen a loose bodyart-as-aesthetic model to describe her full-body-concept transformation, squarely defining the shapeshift for herself as extreme modification for spiritual, psychological, physical and emotional reasons. Cora likes small cats and big dogs, as well as olives, China Mieville, Concrete Blonde and bowling shoes. She dislikes labels of all kinds, particularly ones of sexual preference and identity, though she recognizes their importance in the vein of communication and understanding and therefore ends up using them quite a lot, especially in reference to herself.

[Among other things, Cora was] a UNIX systems administrator at a liberal arts university in Massachusetts, as well as a writer and a freelance aesthete.

See Also