Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian has been a Canadian and American feminist media critic for over 20 years. She's also a seasoned public speaker. Feminist Frequency provides videos, commentaries and analysis of portrayals in popular cultures. Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning feminist journalist from Canada and a blogger. Feminist Frequency is an educational site for non-profit organizations that investigates representations of women in the popular media narratives. Aiming to break down the stereotypes that are associated with females in pop culture, she seeks to bring attention to targeted exploitation of women and the other marginalized groups of individuals in the internet world. Sarkeesian is a graduate in the field of political and social thought from York University. As a public speaker, she's highly sought after and has spoken at TEDxWomenXOXO as well as the United Nations Broadband Working Group. She was fascinated by feminist issues, gender and gender equality from a very early time. When she graduated in 2009, continuing to study at the university level, she created the Feminist Frequency website. She had a plan to launch a web series that would examine gender-based representations in video games and found herself the target of a harassment online campaign. However the attack could have been a hindrance, rather it made her more determined as a feminist critic of media. She has won many awards for her contributions to the cause of feminism. Anita Sarkeesian, a media critic, has been awarded many awards, and also founded Feminist Frequency which is an educational nonprofit that studies the way women are depicted in the popular culture stories.