Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian (Canadian-American) is a feminist media critic, public speaker and Canadian. Feminist Frequency provides videos, comments and an analysis of the way in which popular culture portrays women. Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning feminist journalist from Canada and a blogger. Feminist Frequency explores how women are represented in popular culture. In her efforts to break down stereotypes of women that exist in pop culture, she has also been working to address issues relating to harassing women targeted by the media and different classes of individuals online. Sarkeesian, who has a Master's in Social and Political Thought in the field of social and political thought from York University, is a well-known public speaker. She has delivered speeches at the TEDxWomen festival as well as United Nations Broadband Working Group for Gender. Feminist Frequency was founded in 2009 by Sarkeesian, an undergraduate student at York University who had been interested in issues concerning gender and feminism for quite a lengthy time. The determined lady had planned to start a web-based series examining gender-based representations in video games. However, she found herself the target of an online harassment campaign. This attack was not enough to halt her. Instead, it made her more committed to be a feminist as well as media critique. Many awards have been presented to her for her contributions to the field she contributed to. Anita Sarkeesian was a multi-award winner for her work as a media critic. She was also the director and founder of Feminist Frequency an educational and non-profit organization that explores pop culture representations of females.