Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian was born in Canada but grew up in the United States. She's worked as an editor since the year 1995. Feminist Frequency is a site with video and an online blog looking at the portrayals of female characters in popular culture. Anita Sarkeesian was a Canadian and an American feminist media critique. Feminist Frequency is a non-profit educational website which examines female representations in the popular media narratives. She's committed to removing stereotypes of women as they are depicted in pop media. Furthermore, she works to raise awareness of online harassment directed at women and the marginalized communities of people. Sarkeesian, who holds the degree of Master's in Social and Political Thinking 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. Feminist Frequency was launched in 2009 by Sarkeesian. an undergraduate student at York University who had been interested in issues related to gender and feminism for a long time. She had a plan to launch an internet series that examined gender representation in games, however, she was also the subject of an online harassment campaign. This attack didn't stop her from pursuing the project, and instead it bolstered her resolve as a feminist critic of media. She has won numerous awards for her numerous prominent contributions to the field of feminism. Anita Sarkeesian, a media critic, has been awarded several awards and founded Feminist Frequency, an educational non-profit that examines the way women are depicted in popular culture narratives.