Anita Saarkessian
Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic as well as a public speaker. She was the creator of Feminist Frequency an online platform that offers videos and blog posts that analyze gender representations in popular media. Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist and critic with awards to show in her field, is an activist blogger. She is the creator and executive director of Feminist Frequency, a not-for-profit educational website that focuses on the role of women in pop stories of culture. Committed to deconstructing the stereotypes that are associated with females in popular culture, she is also working on issues related specifically to the harassment of women and other marginalized classes of individuals in the internet space. Sarkeesian graduated with a master's degree in the field of political and social thought from York University. As a public speaker, she's well-known as she has appeared at TEDxWomen and the United Nations Broadband Working Group. Passionate about issues of gender and feminism since an early age she launched her site Feminist Frequency in 2009, while studying at the university. The determined lady had planned to start a web-based series examining gender representation in video games and found herself the victim of an online harassment campaign. But the harassment did not discourage her. The experience only strengthened her in her role as a journalist who is feminist. Her notable contributions to the field of feminists were recognized by a variety of awards. Anita Sarkeesian, a media critic who has won a variety of accolades and has founded Feminist Frequency a nonprofit educational company that examines the ways women are represented in popular cultural narratives.






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