Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic as well as a public speaker. Feminist Frequency is a web site which hosts video and commentary looking at the portrayals of women in pop culture. Anita Sarkeesian was a Canadian as well as an American feminist media critique. Feminist Frequency investigates how women are depicted in pop culture. The challenge of destroying stereotypes regarding women is her main focus. In addition, Sarkeesian discusses issues of targeted harassment against women online as well as other communities that are left out. Sarkeesian holds a York University master's in social theological, philosophical and political thought. Alongside being an acclaimed public speaker, she has given speeches at the TEDxWomen XOXO conference and the United Nations Broadband Working Group. Inquiring about gender and feminism since at an early age, she created her own website Feminist Frequency in the year 2009 when she was still a student at the university. The site was created by a woman in her early 20s determined to make a series of web videos that would examine gender roles in video games. But, she was victimized by online harassment. The attack did not stop her from pursuing the project, and instead it bolstered the determination of feminist media critic. She has won numerous awards for her contribution to the cause of feminism. Anita Sarkeesian is an award winning media critic and the co-founder of Feminist Frequency an educational non-profit that explores the representations of women in pop culture and the narratives that surround them.