Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian was born in Canada but grew up in the United States. She has worked as a media critic since 1995. Feminist Frequency was established by Sarkeesian. The site hosts videos which include commentary on gender representations in the media and popular culture of today. Anita Sarkeesian a Canadian American media critic. Feminist Frequency examines the way women are depicted in popular media. Aiming to break down the stereotypes that are associated with females in popular culture, she works to highlight issues related to the targeted harassment of women and other marginalized classes of the Internet environment. Sarkeesian who has the degree of Master's in the field of Social and Political thought in the field of social and political thought from York University, is a well-known public speaker. She has given speeches at TEDxWomen's XOXO Festival and the United Nations Broadband Working Group for Gender. She was fascinated by gender issues and feminism from a very young time. When she graduated in 2009, still studying at university, she created the Feminist Frequency site. It was a girl determined to make the series of videos on the internet to examine the how gender is represented in games. In the end, she ended up being the victim of online harassment. The woman was not stopped from the attack, and the fact is that it only bolstered her determination to be an expert on media and feminism. Her numerous contributions to the feminist field were recognized by a variety of awards. Anita Sarkeesian was a multi-award winning media critic. She was also the director and founder of Feminist Frequency an educational and non-profit organisation that studies pop culture representations of females.