Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian has been a Canadian and American feminist media critic for over 20 years. She is well-known as a public speech writer. Feminist Frequency is a website with video and an online blog looking at the portrayals of women in pop media and popular. Anita Sarkeesian a Canadian American media critic. Feminist Frequency is a site for education that examines women's positions in the pop culture narratives It is the brainchild of Anita Sarkeesian. She also serves as the director of operations. Committed to deconstructing the stereotypes of women that have been portrayed in popular culture, she seeks to bring attention to harassment targeted at women and the other marginalized groups of people in the online space. Sarkeesian has a Master's degree in political and social thinking from York University. As a public speaker, she's highly sought after and has given talks at TEDxWomenXOXO and the United Nations Broadband Working Group. Inquiring about gender identity and feminism from the age of 7, she started her site Feminist Frequency in the year 2009 when she was studying at the university. She had a plan to launch a web series that would examine gender-based representations in video games. She ended up being the victim of a harassment online campaign. However the attack could not deter her instead it made her more determined as a feminist critic of media. She has won numerous awards in recognition of her many significant contributions to the world of feministism. Anita Sarkeesian was a multi-award winner for her work as a journalist. She was also the founder and director of Feminist Frequency a nonprofit educational group that focuses on pop-culture gender representations.