Anita Saarkessian
Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic and public speaking. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency, a site which features video and posts analyzing the portrayals of females in pop culture. Anita Sarkeesian has been a journalist, critic, and award-winning feminist over a decade. Feminist Frequency is an educational non-profit website that explores the representations of females in the popular media narratives. Aiming to break down the stereotypes about women and popular culture, she is also working on issues related specifically to the harassment of women as well as other classes of people in the online world. Sarkeesian who has an MA in Social and Political Thought at York University, is also well-known as a sought-after public presenter. She has delivered speeches at TEDxWomen's XOXO and the United Nations Broadband Working Group to Gender. Passionate about issues of gender identities and feminisms from at an early age, she created her website Feminist Frequency in 2009 while still a student at the university. The determined lady had planned to start a web-based series examining gender representation in video games. She found herself at the center of an online harassment campaign. However the attack could have been a hindrance, rather it only strengthened her resolve as a feminist media critic. Sarkeesian has been awarded numerous awards in recognition of her many notable contributions to the field of feministism. Anita Sarkeesian has been a journalist for a long time and founded Feminist Frequency An educational non-profit that explores gender representation in the media and in.
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