Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian has been a Canadian and American feminist media critic for more than 20 years. She is well-known as a public speech writer. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency a website that provides commentary and videos on portrayals of women in popular cultural. Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning Canadian-American feminist media critic as well as blogger. Feminist Frequency is an educational non-profit website that examines female representations in popular culture narratives. She is committed to deconstructing stereotypes of women as they appear in popular media. In addition she has a mission to increase the awareness of harassment on social media targeted at women, and other those who are marginalized. Sarkeesian is a graduate in the field of political and social thought at York University. As a public speaker, she is extremely sought-after and has spoken at TEDxWomenXOXO as well as the United Nations Broadband Working Group. When she was a student at the university she became fascinated by the issue of gender identity and women's rights at an early stage. The site was created by a woman in her early 20s with a dream to develop an online series that would examine gender representations in video games. But, she was victimized by online harassment. It was not enough to stop her. Instead, it increased her importance to be a feminist as well as media critique. Her numerous contributions to the feminist field have been recognized by numerous prizes. Anita Sarkeesian has been a journalist for a long time and is the founder of Feminist Frequency. The educational non-profit explores the role of women within the popular culture stories.