In Sunnydale, vampires and demons ran amok, there was a nightclub for minors that also was frequented by school librarians, kids went missing all the time, a band of high school students ran around town wielding magic and swords, and the high school sat on the actual HELLMOUTH. But no one — or virtually no one — seemed to notice. Most of Sunnydale accepted the weird occurrences and implausible experiences. Even Joyce knew, deep down, that Buffy was up to something — but it was easier to just ignore the uncomfortable truth. It wasn't until graduation that the whole town was forced to reckon with the ugly underpinnings of Sunnydale.

The United States of America is Sunnydale. Wild, terrible things go on everyday and we have been socialized to explain them away or to not even see them at all. The white cis heteropatriarchy imposed by colonialism is the Watcher's Council. Forever setting arbitrary rules that have harmed vulnerable populations for centuries — and those vulnerable populations and a few allies were the only ones fighting and dying.



Finally, the world is waking up & saying enough is enough. Like the Scoobies, a coalition of different people have come together to defy the status quo and destroy their local Hellmouths around the world. But none of the work in real life or in Sunnydale comes easy. For our community here, the work means reckoning with the harm that has been caused, examining the ways in which we benefit or are disadvantaged because of race, and — maybe the scariest and most painful thing of all — learning to divest from the harmful structure of white supremacy that's been woven into every facet of the United States of America and the rest of the colonized world.

We commit to prioritizing the BIPOC community here at Buffering the Vampire Slayer in all the ways we know how, and all the ways we are committed to learning.



We stand with you in the fight to take down the biggest of the Big Bads.

Here is a working list of our ongoing commitments at Buffering the Vampire Slayer.