The Kissing Booth

Why does the white boy always get the girl in Netflix rom-coms?

By Anugraha Sundaravelu

The sequels to The Kissing Booth and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before both feature PoC love interests, but they’re merely tokenistic distractions.

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