Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian was born in Canada and raised in the US. She has worked as media critic since. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency the site that features videos and comments analyzing the portrayals of females in popular culture. Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist and critic that has received awards for her work, is a feminist blogger. Feminist Frequency investigates how women are depicted in pop culture. Aiming to dispel the myths that are associated with women in pop culture, she also works to address issues relating to targeted harassment women and other classes of people online. Sarkeesian, who holds an MA in the field of Social and Political thought from York University, is a sought after public speaker. She has given speeches at TEDxWomen XOXO festival and United Nations Broadband Working Group for Gender. While a student at university Sarkeesian was interested in the issues surrounding gender identity and women's rights at an early stage. It was a girl determined to make the series of videos on the internet to examine the gender representations in video games. In the end, she ended up being victimized by online harassment. Her determination was not slowed by the assault, actually, it just reinforced her desire to become feminist and media critic. Her many notable contributions in the field of feminist have been recognized by numerous prizes. Anita Sarkeesian is an award nominated media critic as well as the founder of Feminist Frequency an educational non-profit focused on the portrayal of women in pop media narratives.