Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic and public talker. Feminist Frequency is a web site with video and blogs discussing the way women are represented in popular culture. Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist and critic who has been awarded awards for her writing, is an activist blogger. Feminist Frequency is an educational and non-profit site that investigates representations of women in the popular media narratives. She's committed to removing stereotypes of women and the way they are depicted in pop media. In addition, she strives to bring awareness to cyber-bullying targeting females and other minorities of individuals. Sarkeesian, who holds an MS in Political and Social Thought with a degree from York University, is also a highly sought after public speaker. She has spoken at TEDxWomen XOXO festival and United Nations Broadband Working Group for Gender. She has been interested in female issues as well as feminism from a young age. As of 2009, as she was still at the University of Toronto, Sarkeesian created the website Feminist Frequency. A woman who was ambitious planned to create a web-series to study gender representation in games. However, she found herself the target of an online harassment campaign. However the attack could not deter her instead it only bolstered her determination to be a feminist media critic. Her many notable contributions in the feminist field are recognized with numerous prizes. Anita Sarkeesian has been a media critic for several years and was the creator of Feminist Frequency which is an non-profit organization for education that examines female representations of the media and in.