Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic as well as a public talker. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency which is a website with video content and blogs on the representations of women in pop media. Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning Canadian-American feminist media critic as well as blogger. She was the co-creator and director-executive of Feminist Frequency a non-profit educational website that focuses on the role of women's roles in popular cultural narratives. Determined to challenge the assumptions of women that have been portrayed in popular culture, she is also working to highlight issues related to harassment targeted at women as well as other classes of the Internet area. A graduate in social and political thought from York University Sarkeesian is also a much sought-after public talker. She has also delivered speeches at TEDxWomen XOXO Festival and the United Nations' Broadband Working Group on Gender. Inquiring about gender and feminism since her early years, she founded her website Feminist Frequency in 2009, while studying at the university. She had a plan to launch a web series examining gender representation in video games and found herself the target of a cyber-bullying campaign. Although the incident did have been a hindrance, rather it only bolstered her resolve as a feminist media journalist. Sarkeesian has been awarded numerous awards in recognition of her many prominent contributions to the field of feministism. Anita Sarkeesian has been a media critic for years and is the founder of Feminist Frequency, an educational nonprofit that investigates female representations of pop culture.