Anita Saarkessian
Anita Sarkeesian (Canadian-American) is an activist in the field of feminist media, public speaker and Canadian. She was the creator of Feminist Frequency a website that hosts videos and commentary analyzing depictions of women's roles in popular media. Anita Sarkeesian is an award-winning feminist media critic from Canada, as well as a blogger. Feminist Frequency is a non-profit educational website which analyzes how females are represented in popular culture narratives. She is committed to deconstructing stereotypes of women as they are portrayed in popular media. In addition, she seeks to educate people about cyber-bullying targeting women, as well as other marginalized groups of people. Sarkeesian holds a Masters in social and political thinking at York University. As a public speaker, she is extremely sought-after and has been a speaker at TEDxWomen XOXO and United Nations Broadband Working Group. Since her early years Sarkeesian was intrigued by gender issues and feminist theories. While still at school in 2009 she developed the Feminist Frequency website. The determined lady had planned to start a web-based program that examined gender representations in video games and found herself the target for an online harassment campaign. It didn't deter her, but instead strengthened her determination as feminists who criticize media. Her numerous contributions to the feminist field were recognized by a variety of prizes. Anita Sarkeesian has been a journalist for a long time as well as the founder of Feminist Frequency An educational non-profit that explores women's representations in popular culture.






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