Anita Saarkessian
Anita Sarkeesian (Canadian-American) is an activist in the field of feminist media also a speaker who is Canadian. Feminist Frequency hosts videos, comments and an analysis of how popular culture depicts women. Anita Sarkeesian a Canadian American media critic. Feminist Frequency is a not-for profit site for education that investigates the representation of women in pop stories of culture - was created and directed by Sarkeesian. Dispelling stereotypes of women is her main focus. In addition, Sarkeesian discusses issues of specifically targeted harassment online against women and other minorities that have been marginalized. Sarkeesian, who holds the degree of Master's in Social and Political Thought at York University, is a well-known public speakers. She has delivered speeches at the TEDxWomen festival as well as United Nations Broadband Working Group to Gender. Feminist Frequency was founded in 2009 by Sarkeesian. an undergraduate student at York University who had been involved in topics concerning gender and feminism for a considerable period of time. She was a young woman determined to make an online series that would examine how gender is represented in video games. In the end, she ended up being the target of cyber-bullying. The attack did not stop her, rather it strengthened the determination of feminist media critic. As a result of the many achievements she's made for feminism, she is awarded numerous prizes. Anita Sarkeesian is an award winning media critic and the founder of Feminist Frequency an educational nonprofit focused on the portrayal of women within pop culture narratives.






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