Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic and public speaking. Feminist Frequency is a website where you can find videos and other commentary analysing portrayals women in popular culture. Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American blogger and media critic who has been awarded awards in her field, is an activist blogger. She was the co-creator as well as the executive director for Feminist Frequency an educational non-profit website that focuses on the role of women in popular cultural narratives. She's committed to removing stereotypes of women and the way they are portrayed in popular culture. Furthermore, she is working to increase awareness about online harassment directed at women as well as marginalized groups of individuals. A graduate in political and social thought from York University Sarkeesian is also well-known as a sought-after talker. She has also delivered keynote speeches at TEDxWomen's Women XOXO Festival as well as at the United Nations' Broadband Working Group on Gender. She has been interested in feminist issues, gender and gender equality since at a very young age. When she was in 2009, she was still at university, Sarkeesian launched the website Feminist Frequency. She was launching a series of videos on the web that looked at gender roles in video games and was the target of online bullying. Although the incident did have been a hindrance, rather it only strengthened her resolve as a feminist media critic. Her work has earned her numerous awards to recognize her prominent contributions to the field of feminism. Anita Sarkeesian has been a media critic for several years as well as the founder of Feminist Frequency An non-profit organization for education that examines the representation of women in popular culture.