Challenges cultural appropriation by privileged creators profiting from marginalized trauma
The article frames the novel as a critique of straight creators capitalizing on queer pain for commercial success, using the protagonist's unethical story theft as a metaphor.
“She uses her husband's pictures to create a Grindr profile, gets invited to a gay chemsex party, encounters Leo — a young gay addict and sex worker — and stalks him to secretly leech his story and turn it into a fat book deal.”
