Author focuses on recent shifts in Boys Love genre by developing the concept of transformative BL - works that stop relying on traditional BL tropes of shared misogyny, non-consensual sexual advances as an expression of love, and fantastical settings, in favor of more realistic depictions of queer lives and struggles.
In general well argued, but with a one-sided focus on progressive BL, where there still is enough old-style BL to go around. Some parts suffer of a lack of (academic) backing, and as a result come off as overly opinionated. Finally, the author presents these 'transformative' BL works as somehow fundamentally distinct from traditional BL, even though it is clearly a sliding scale. This leads one to wonder whether there is any point to creating a new term at all, instead of simply identifying a new direction some modern BL are taking.