Tag: Hannibal

Netflix’s “Sense8” Gives Us the Diverse Television We’ve Been Waiting For
Third Culture Kids · Wear Your Voice Magazine

Netflix’s “Sense8” Gives Us the Diverse Television We’ve Been Waiting For

Sezin Koehler

“Sense8 is a veritable diversity and inclusivity bonanza, and will be a useful antidote as the current Nazi and white nationalistic rhetoric grows in response to a changing world that threatens white hetero male privilege. The Wachowskis make it look so easy to have a diverse, three-dimensional cast of different races, cultures, sexualities and genders. It makes me wonder why other showrunners make such a big deal about not doing it. As someone who has lived all over the planet, I’ve never experienced a show before that mirrors my own life and my own empathic connections to others.” For Wear Your Voice Mag, December 2016.

Internal And External Displacement: Immigration, Mental Illness, and Netflix’s River
Empath · Huffington Post · Television · Trauma · Zuzu Huffington

Internal And External Displacement: Immigration, Mental Illness, and Netflix’s River

Sezin Koehler

“Immigration doesn’t only externally displace a person from familiar surroundings, language, and culture, it also internally displaces us into a cultural and linguistic limbo that at times can be a horror to navigate. Lives become split into befores and afters, and even if you inhabit a closely-knit immigrant community, immigration forces us into liminal existences often on the social and cultural margins that create perceived differences between us and them, and even causes ruptures between us and the homeland that grow more and more apparent the longer one lives outside.” My 35th article for HuffPost, published in July 2016.

Happiness Is a Choice, and So Is Love
Death · Empath · Expatria · Florida · Health · Huffington Post · Repatria · Spirituality · Trauma · Zuzu Huffington

Happiness Is a Choice, and So Is Love

Sezin Koehler

Ultimately, we’re not passive recipients of love or happiness. In so many ways we’re taught to sit back and wait for love, wait for happiness, wait for satisfaction to find us when that’s not how it works at all. We ourselves are the active participants in the promotion or prevention of our own lives.” My 27th article for HuffPost, published in Feb 2016.

Moving On After the World Ends: The Dark Truths of HBO’s The Leftovers and Trauma
Art · Culture · Death · Empath · Expatria · Florida · Healing Power of Horror · Horror · Huffington Post · Human Rights · Repatria · Spirituality · Television · Trauma · United Nations · Wendy · Zuzu Huffington

Moving On After the World Ends: The Dark Truths of HBO’s The Leftovers and Trauma

Sezin Koehler

“And in the exposing of vulnerability, of pain, of such great loss, is the seeking for answers why. Why did this happen? Where did they go now that they’re gone? Are they safe? Are they at peace? Why not me? Why did I survive and others didn’t? Is there a purpose behind it all?” My 20th piece for HuffPost, published in December 2015.

The Mainstreaming of Empathy, or How Hannibal Changed My Life
Art · Culture · Healing Power of Horror · Health · Horror · Huffington Post · Movies · Television · Third Culture Kids · Trauma · Zuzu Huffington

The Mainstreaming of Empathy, or How Hannibal Changed My Life

Sezin Koehler

“With an appropriately bloody and dashing full moon finale came the close of three amazing seasons of Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal, hands down some of the best television ever made in the history of the medium.” My 13th article for Huffington Post, published in September 2015.