Click on the titles below to read other publications related to (media and) suicidality. Scroll past the picture to read a summary for each piece.
The complexities of the documentary The Bridge as heterotopia, Suicide in Popular Media and Culture anthology, Bristol University Press, forthcoming 2026
YouTube, Youth Suicidality and Different Types of Masculinity in Logic’s music, In Media Res, A mediacommons project, April 22, 2025
Para/Texts for the Movie Archie’s Final Project: Navigating Stigma and Profit Imperatives to Discuss Suicide and Human Connections, Visual Studies, September 1-3, 2024
Lettera aperta alla Sindaca di Sant’Olcese Sara Dante, LinkedIn, February 25, 2025
Open conversation, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 2023
Chapter – forthcoming in the Suicide in Popular Media and Culture anthology (Bristol University Press)
The complexities of the documentary The Bridge as heterotopia
I use the concept of heterotopia as conceptualized by Michael Foucault to make sense of the highly complex and controversial documentary The Bridge (Steel, 2006).
Journal article – Visual Studies, September, 1-13, 2024
Para/texts for the movie Archie’s Final Project: navigating stigma and profit imperatives to discuss suicide and human connections
The independent film Archie’s Final Project (2009) offers an authentic look at the youth experience, in part because it is made by young people. Given the high suicide rates among youth in the United States and the role that media can play in educating the public about it, this article examines how the content of this film, as well as various iterations of posters and titles, navigated the lingering stigma attached to suicidality. Check out my Visual Studies journal article here!
Seggi, Alessandra (2024). “Para/Texts for the Movie Archie’s Final Project: Navigating Stigma and Profit Imperatives to Discuss Suicide and Human Connections.” Visual Studies, September, 1–13. doi:10.1080/1472586X.2024.2399669.
Letter to the editor – The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 2023
Open conversation
Letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer editor about the importance of addressing young suicide deaths as such:
By not addressing suicide deaths, we end up robbing our students of the chance to grieve together, to make sense of what, for most of us, is unthinkable, yet suddenly very real. With that silence, we are also perpetuating the stigma that makes suicidality so much more difficult to deal with. We are making it harder for students to reach out for help. By not addressing the suffering of the suicidal student, we end up ignoring them and the immensity of their pain. We owe it to our young, whose well-being and education we’re all committed to, to gently give them a straight answer. Life is hard. Suicide is not the solution.