Anita Saarkessian
Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian/American media critic is also a public speech writer. Feminist Frequency is a site with video and an online blog analysing portrayals female characters in popular media and popular. Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning Canadian-American feminist media critic as well as blogger. She is the creator and director-general of Feminist Frequency which is an education non-profit website which explores representations of women in pop culture narratives. The challenge of destroying stereotypes regarding women is her primary goals. In addition, Sarkeesian highlights issues related to specifically targeted harassment online against women and other minorities which are left out. Sarkeesian holds a Masters in social and political thinking at York University. As a public speaker, she is well-known and has given talks at TEDxWomenXOXO as well as the United Nations Broadband Working Group. Inquiring about gender identities and feminisms from at an early age, she created her site Feminist Frequency in 2009 while still a student at the university. The ambitious lady planned to create a web series examining gender representation in video games. She ended up being the victim of an online harassment campaign. The incident did not deter her, rather it strengthened the determination of an activist for women in media. The award-winning journalist has received numerous accolades to recognize her prominent contributions to the field of feministism. Anita Sarkeesian is an award winning media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency an educational and non-profit organization which studies the portrayals of women in pop media narratives.






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