Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian was born in Canada and raised in the US. She has worked as media critic since. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency, a site which features video and posts on the representations of women in popular culture. Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist and critic who has won awards for her work, is a feminist blogger. Feminist Frequency investigates how women are represented in the popular media. Destroying stereotypes about women are her main focus. In addition, Sarkeesian explores the issue of specific harassment of women on the internet and other minorities which are left out. Sarkeesian holds a Masters in social and political thinking from York University. As a public speaker, she is extremely sought-after and has spoken at TEDxWomen XOXO and United Nations Broadband Working Group. Feminist Frequency was created in the year 2009 by Sarkeesian, university student who has been fascinated by issues concerning gender and feminism for quite a lengthy time. It was a girl with a dream to develop a series of web videos that would examine how gender is represented in video games. In the end, she ended up being the target of cyber-bullying. The woman was not stopped from the attack, and actually, it just reinforced her drive to become an expert on media and feminism. As a result of the many contributions she has made to feminism, she is recognized with numerous awards. Anita Sarkeesian was a multi-award winning media journalist. She is also the creator and director of Feminist Frequency a nonprofit educational group that focuses on pop-culture gender representations.