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'''An industrial piercing''' is two or more piercings connected by a single barbell. In normal usage it refers to an ear piercing whereby two [[Helix piercing|helix piercings]] are connected by a single straight (or curved) [[Barbell|barbell]]. This piercing was first popularized (and named) by [[Erik Dakota]] in [[Body Play magazine|Body Play magazine]] #4 (1992), where it was pictured and titled, "industrial [[Ear project|ear project]]."
'''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:


While most industrials are a straight bar connecting two helix piercings, they are also often done vertically (sometimes more than one, becoming an [[Ear cage|ear cage]]) or through piercings other than the helix, such as [[Rook|rook]] to [[Helix piercing|helix piercing]] or [[Inner conch|inner]] or [[Outer conch|outer conch]] piercings.
    ...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.


Other common industrial piercings include the [[Navel industrial|navel industrial]].
[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.


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== Alternative Names ==
*'''Crossbow Piercing''': [[Local term|local term]] in Ontario, Canada.
*'''Construction Piercing''': used in Alaska and other areas.  
*'''Scaffold Piercing''': common in the United Kingdom and Australia.
*'''Transversal Piercing''': used in Brazil.
 
== See Also ==
*[[Ear Project]]
*[[Ear Spiral]]
*[[Orbital]]
*[[Vertical Industrial]]
 
== Related Risks ==
*[[Bell's Palsy]]
*[[Ear Collapse]]
*[[Loss of Hearing]]
*[[Rejection]]
*[[Shallow Industrial]]

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