Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic as well as a public speechwriter. Feminist Frequency is a web site which hosts video and commentary analysing portrayals women in pop culture. Anita Sarkeesian a Canadian American media critic. She is the author and executive director of Feminist Frequency an educational non-profit website which explores representations of women in pop stories of culture. Committed to destroying the stereotypes that are associated with women in pop culture, she also works to address issues relating to harassing women targeted by the media and others on the internet. A graduate in the field of political and social thinking at York University Sarkeesian is also well-known as a sought-after speaker and she has delivered speech at the TEDxWomen Festival as well as the United Nations' Broadband Working Group on Gender. Inquiring about gender identities and feminisms from at an early age, she created her website Feminist Frequency in 2009, while she was still at university. She had a plan to create a web series that would examine gender representation in video games. She ended up being the victim of an online harassment campaign. The incident did not deter her from pursuing the project, and instead it bolstered her resolve as a feminist critic of media. Her numerous contributions to the field of feminists were recognized by a variety of prizes. Anita Sarkeesian was a multi-award winner for her work as a media journalist. She was also the director and founder of Feminist Frequency a nonprofit educational group that focuses on pop-culture gender representations.