Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian (Canadian-American) is a feminist media critic, public speaker and Canadian. Feminist Frequency is a website which hosts video and commentary on the representation of women in pop culture. Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist and critic that has received accolades for her work. She is an activist blogger. She is the founder and director of executive for Feminist Frequency A scholarly, non-profit website that explores representations of women within popular culture narratives. Committed to destroying the stereotypes related to women in popular culture, she has also been working to address issues relating to harassing women targeted by the media and others online. Sarkeesian has a Master's degree in political and social thinking from York University. As a public speaker, she's well-known and has been a speaker at TEDxWomenXOXO and the United Nations Broadband Working Group. Feminist Frequency was created in 2009 by Sarkeesian. university student who has been fascinated by issues concerning gender and feminism for quite a long time. The site was created by a woman in her early 20s with a dream to develop an online series which would explore gender representations in video games. In the end, she ended up being the victim of online harassment. Her determination was not slowed by the assault, in fact it only reinforced her drive to become a media critic and feminist. Numerous awards have been awarded to her as a way of acknowledging all of the contribution she has have made. Anita Sarkeesian is an award nominated media critic as well as the creator of Feminist Frequency an educational non-profit which studies the portrayals of women in pop cultural stories.