#kathe koja

[splattergutz]

who wants to come over & have a fucked up buildings media night with me

[onlyloversleftonline]

any character from a kathe koja book pls 🙏

my two favs

[schizoid-hikikomori]

I did some more literary analysis. This is not necessarily schizoid related, but I believe some people here might find this interesting.

Koja's fiction is unlike any other and she herself is a delight of a person to speak with.

Engulfment and the Horror of Relationships in the work of Kathe Koja

Kathe Koja is well-known for her intense speculative fiction that established her presence in the literary scene in the 1990s. While she…

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A stack of places.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hot in the chest, burning, and Bibi’s hedgehog face screwed tight as though beneath its metal burden, chains fine as fishing line jingling between brow and lobe, oh Bibi, you’d love me to hurt you: and the pale eyes flared open like two white arcs igniting. Bibi goads Tess past the breaking point.

in the world's most toxic artistic partnership-cum-lesbian love affair, an aggressively boundary-pushing masochist goads her jealous and reluctant top into a violent sexual fantasia! and no one has a good time yayyyyy!!!

Explicit, Chose Not to Warn, F/F, 4,947 words

keywords: fingering, dirty talk, rough sex, scarification, women artists, anger issues, fighting before fucking, fighting after fucking, free indirect style, the downward spiral, blood & fire, top POV, with obligatory crushing top drop natch, my very best effort at Koja's dizzy twisting image-heavy prose (read it for the pastiche of the book style if nothing else... then read the book... please 😇), angst and porn yummyyyyy, when your gf drives you so insane you mutually fantasize aloud about [redacted]

tess: can we fix this fracturing relationship with sadomasochistic sex performed under duress? LET'S TRY 😵‍💫 bibi: WHY DO YOU HATE ME

burn-through: let it get under your skin here!

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Pivoting back to 90s transgressive fiction with Kathe Koja's The Cipher aka Nick and Nakota's Infinite Sex Hole

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Older Queer Works Book Bracket: Round 1C

Choose a book:

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) by Audre Lorde

Skin (1993) by Kathe Koja

Voting ended onNov 29, 2025

Book summaries below:

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) by Audre Lorde

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On she stumbles through teenage hardships—suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone—until she emerges into happiness: an oasis of friendship in Washington Heights, an affair in a dirty factory in Connecticut, and, finally, a journey down to the heat of Mexico, discovering sex, tenderness, and suppers of hot tamales and cold milk. This is Audre Lorde's story. It is a rapturous, life-affirming tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality and change, rich with poetry and fierce emotional power.

Nonfiction, memoir, biomythography, 1950s

Skin (1993) by Kathe Koja

Tess spends her days picking through scrap yards and arc-welding her strange, jagged metal sculptures. Bibi is a dancer, who pushes her hardened body beyond endurance, sculpting every movement and every muscle, basking in the warmth of the pain…Then the two women come together, and together they create a new underground art form of metal and flesh, a dance of whirling bodies and whirling sculpture, a dance of pain and blood…

Breaking the boundaries of art, Tess and Bibi are plunged deeper and deeper into a realm of obsession - until the lust for pain grows beyond all their control…

Horror, psychological horror, body horror

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