Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian was born in Canada but grew up in the U.S. She's worked as media critic since. Feminist Frequency was founded by Sarkeesian. The website hosts videos featuring commentary and analysis of the depictions of women in contemporary culture. Anita Sarkeesian a Canadian American media critic. Feminist Frequency is an educational site for non-profit organizations that investigates representations of women in popular culture narratives. In addition, she works to bring awareness to the targeted and sexist attacks on women, others of minority groups in the online world, she is dedicated to breaking down stereotypes that are prevalent in pop culture. With a master's in the field of political and social thinking at York University Sarkeesian is also an extremely sought-after public presenter and has presented talks at the TEDxWomen XOXO festival as well as at the United Nations' Broadband Working Group on Gender. Inquiring about gender identity and feminism from an early age she launched her own website Feminist Frequency in 2009, while she was still at university. An ambitious woman who wanted to create a web series that examined the gender representation of video games was targeted in the internet campaign. Her determination was not slowed by the assault, in fact it only reinforced her drive to become an expert on media and feminism. Sarkeesian has been awarded numerous awards for her numerous significant contributions to the world of feminism. Anita Sarkeesian was a multi-award award-winning media journalist. She is also the founder and director of Feminist Frequency a nonprofit educational organisation that studies pop culture depictions of women.