Anita Sarkeesian
Anita Sarkeesian
Anita Sarkeesianis a Canadian-American feminist media critic, blogger, and public speaker. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency, a website that hosts videos and commentary analyzing portrayals of women in popular culture. She has received particular attention for her video series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, which examines tropes in the depiction of female video game characters...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBlogger
Date of Birth15 August 1983
CountryCanada
struggle online harassment
The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.
team creative enjoy
I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.
real hero character
Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition of the female or feminine hero, but also villains and more complex, nuanced female characters. Too often I hear men say, "I don't know how to write women." Here you go, here are five incredible women you can use to inspire your own stories.
focus
I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.
meaningful negative attention
The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.
taken speaking-up silver
I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.
hate levels stranger
I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.
princess wells
Well maybe the princess shouldnt be a damsel and she can save herself.
animation
Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.
males gamer entitlement
Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change.
males inception industry
The gaming industry has been male-dominated ever since its inception.
feminism video audio
I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.
book kids pirate
I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names are not up there next to male names that we've know since we were little kids. Ching Shih, for example, was a pirate commander from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. She was one of the most fearsome pirates, why is her name not included when we list the names of great pirates like Blackbeard?
believe radical can-do
One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.