Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian/American media critic who is also a public talker. She created Feminist Frequency which is a website which features video and posts on the representations of women in pop culture. Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning feminist media critic from Canada, as well as a blogger. She is the founder and executive director of Feminist Frequency an educational not-for-profit website that explores representations of women in popular stories of culture. She's determined to dismantle stereotypes of women and the way they are depicted in pop culture. Furthermore, she works to raise awareness of the online abuse directed towards females and other minorities of society. Sarkeesian has a Master's degree in Political and Social Thinking at 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 has been interested in female issues as well as feminism from the age of a child. When she was in 2009, she was a student at a university, Sarkeesian founded the website Feminist Frequency. It was the time to release a set of web videos examining the gender representations in video games at the time she came under the sway of cyber-bullying. This attack didn't stop her, however it did strengthen her resolve as feminist critique of the media. She has won numerous awards for her numerous notable contributions to the field of feminism. Anita Sarkeesian has been a media critic for many years and is the founder of Feminist Frequency, an non-profit organization for education that examines female representations of the media and in.