Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic and public speechwriter. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency which is a website which features video and posts analyzing the portrayals of females in popular media. Anita Sarkeesian has been a media critic, blogger and award-winning feminist for over 10 years. She is the founder and director of executive for Feminist Frequency which is an education not-for-profit website that explores representations of women in popular culture narratives. Alongside working to bring awareness to the harassment and targeted attack on women and as well as other minorities, she is committed to breaking the stereotypes in the pop culture. Sarkeesian, who has a Master's in Political and Social Thinking in the field of social and political thought from York University, is a well-known public speaker. She has given speeches at TEDxWomen XOXO festival and United Nations Broadband Working Group for Gender. She was interested in the gender issue and feminist movements from a very early stage of her life. When she graduated in 2009, in university, she created her Feminist Frequency site. She had a plan to start an internet-based series that examined the role of gender in games but was the target of a harassment campaign online. The incident did not deter her, rather it strengthened the determination of a feminist critic of media. Many awards have been presented to her as a way of acknowledging her contributions to the field she contributed to. Anita Sarkeesian has been a journalist for a long time and was the creator of Feminist Frequency. This educational nonprofit explores women's representations within the popular culture stories.