#bipocvampday

Join us for BIPOC Vampire Day 2026!

September 18th-20th

Join us for the 6th year of #BIPOCVampDay – a 3-day long online event celebrating Black, Indigenous, and POC vampires in media. We’re also fundraising for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America and spreading awareness about sickle cell disease – that’s right, the vampires are giving back to our community with a virtual blood-drive.

We want your art, your OCs, your stories, your projects - if it involves BIPOC Vampires, we wanna see it shared over that weekend and beyond.

What is BIPOCVampDay?

#BIPOCVampDay began in September 2021 inspired by the success of Black Fae Day (created by Jasmine La Fleur).

Much like Black Fae Day, BIPOC Vampire Day was an event focused on representation – because despite vampiric folklore existing in every culture around the world – the media showcasing vampires is often incredibly Euro-centric or pale. Determined to prove that vampires can be more diverse, they invited their fellow BIPOC vampires (and all vampire fans) to come out to play. Every year participants showcase their original characters, fan art, art, cosplay, books/movies/games all weekend. Representation is more important than ever – so let’s make its 6th year a good one.

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We raised over $3k for Sickle Cell Disease Association of America last year and we're hype for another year of TTRPG streaming, Vampires of Color Vol 5, in person events, and the most diverse showcase of vampires you've ever seen. Hope you'll join us.

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Sidney E. Bel, circa 1798

A glimpse of Sidney as a fledgling vamp way back in the 1700s in honor of #BIPOCVampDay weekend.

I wish I had more to share, but I've been busy working on the event.

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Here’s some BIPOC vampire art from the past year that I’ve made!

#BIPOCVampDay Showcase, Part I

The cast of Bloodspell' was always intended to be diverse, and racism through the ages was something I wanted to set up for consideration. That's the thing about a vampire story: it lets you take the long view on things, by having a character experience a social phenomenon from whenever you want up to whenever it's set.

Dominique Bien-Aimé, top right, Haitian affranchi until she went on the run, has moved through a strange middle ground - a slave, then a freeman's wife, then part of the new aristocracy post-revolution, and then a refugee.

Sylvester, bottom left, has been a low-grade part of the colonising machine, and a disenfranchised pirate, but always Spanish, always European - until he embedded himself in America, and minority status accumulated around him without his understanding. He's always been down and out, but now he's differently down and out.

Laetitia, middle, viewpoint character, is Algerian, and an early draft in which their story was set in the UK still holds up for describing her feelings about that. In that draft, she's complaining about a customer at her all-night petrol station job who called her "Paki" - as she put it, these haters can't even get the right continent. Laetitia's the youngest character, the postmodern postcolonial girl, and part of her journey into vampirism involves where she's from and what happened there, particularly when she meets Clarimonde (bottom right) - nineteenth-century French-North-African colonist.

(Dorian, top left, is white as the inside of an icebox. Their thing is intersectionality: being queer, in an interracial reletionship, and monogamous, dating someone who's very poly.)

I wasn't quite sure how to get all of this into the flavour text of an experimental RPG booklet, but - maybe one day. ' The indie vampire "roleplaying experience" I made a few years back, based on Epidiah Ravachol's Wolfspell and illustrated by @sluggybunny. You can still buy it, and one day I will put out the Extended Edition. One day.

Here’s the blurb from their website:

VAMPIRES OF COLOR, VOLUME IIII: CRIMSON LEGACY

A 90+ page anthology zine filled with work from 32 different creatives including full color illustrations, mini comics, and short stories about BIPOC vampires. Available as a digital PDF and a perfect bound softcover book. All profits will be donated to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (a disease which greatly impacts the BIPOC community).

Link for pre-order: http://ko-fi.com/bipocvampires/shop

And here’s a little sneak peak of my contribution :)