Editor’s note: This piece contains spoilers for AMC’s Interview With The Vampire

On June 15, 2020, Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau was confirmed to be dead after having been missing for nine days. I followed this story online at the height of Covid and the Black Lives Matter protests. I combed through articles about what happened leading up to her death and the activism she engaged in while alive. My heart shattered with every word I read, not just because the details were horrific but also because I saw so much of myself in her. We were the same age, 19-year-old Black girls who dreamed of liberation for our people. And yet, a man was able to cut her life short just like that.

In 2022, AMC began releasing Rolin Jones’s adaptation of The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. Breaking from the source text and the 1994 film adaptation of the same name,...