Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic as well as a public speechwriter. Feminist Frequency is a web site where you can find videos and other commentary looking at the portrayal of women by pop culture. Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning feminist journalist from Canada and a blogger. Feminist Frequency is a site for education that examines gender roles within the world of pop culture, is operated by Sarkeesian. Removing gender stereotypes is her primary goals. In addition, she is keen to draw attention to issues such as the targeting and bullying of women who are online. Sarkeesian who has the degree of Master's in Social and Political Thought at York University, is also an extremely sought-after public speaker. She has spoken at the TEDxWomen XOXO Festival and United Nations Broadband Working Group for Gender. She was interested in female issues as well as feminism from a young age. When she was in 2009, she was still enrolled at university, Sarkeesian launched the site Feminist Frequency. Her website was in the process of launching a collection of videos on the web that looked at gender roles in video games and was the target of cyber-bullying. The attack did not stop her from pursuing the project, and instead reinforced her determination as feminist media critic. As a result of the many achievements she's made for feministism, she's awarded numerous prizes. Anita Sarkeesian has been a media critic for many years as well as the founder of Feminist Frequency, an non-profit educational organization that studies female representations of popular culture.