Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic as well as a public talker. Feminist Frequency is a website which hosts video and commentary looking at the portrayal of women by the media and in popular media and popular. Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning feminist media critic from Canada, as well as a blogger. Feminist Frequency is an educational non-profit website that investigates representations of women in popular culture narratives. In her efforts to dispel the myths of women that have been portrayed in pop culture she also works on issues related to targeted harassment against women and the other minorities of the Internet environment. Sarkeesian graduated with a master's degree in Political and Social Thinking at York University. As a public speaker, she is highly sought after and has spoken at TEDxWomenXOXO as well as the United Nations Broadband Working Group. Since her early years Sarkeesian was interested in questions of gender identity as well as feminist ideas. As a student, in 2009 she developed her Feminist Frequency web site. She was launching a series of videos on the web that looked at game's gender-based representations when she became the victim of online bullying. The attack did hinder her, instead it only bolstered her determination to be a feminist media critic. Her work has earned her numerous awards due to her notable contributions to the field of feministism. Anita Sarkeesian is an award nominated media critic as well as the founder of Feminist Frequency an educational nonprofit that explores the representations of women in pop-culture and the narratives that surround them.