Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian was born in Canada and raised in the U.S. She's been an editor since the year 1995. Feminist Frequency is a site with video and an online blog analysing portrayals women in pop culture. Anita Sarkeesian was a Canadian and American feminist media critic. Feminist Frequency is a non-for profit website that focuses on the representation of women in pop stories of culture - was created and directed by Sarkeesian. She's determined to dismantle stereotypes of women as they appear in popular culture. Additionally, she works to raise the awareness of harassment on social media targeted at women, and other marginalized groups of people. Sarkeesian, who holds a Master's in Social and Political thought in the field of social and political thought from York University, is a sought after public speaking. She has given speeches at the TEDxWomen festival as well as United Nations Broadband Working Group to Gender. Feminist Frequency was created on the 9th of September 2009 by Sarkeesian, university student who has been fascinated by issues related to gender and feminism for a considerable period of period of. It was a girl who wanted to create a series of web videos to examine the how gender is represented in video games. However, she became victimized by online harassment. This attack was not enough to deter her. In fact, it made her more committed as a feminist and media critic. She has won numerous awards for her numerous prominent contributions to the field of feminism. Anita Sarkeesian was a multi-award award-winning journalist. She also serves as the director and founder of Feminist Frequency an educational and non-profit group that focuses on pop-culture depictions of women.