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Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency, a video webseries that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Her work focuses on deconstructing the stereotypes and tropes associated with women in popular culture as well as highlighting issues surrounding the targeted harassment of women in online and gaming spaces.  Anita earned her bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies at California State University Northridge and her Master’s degree in Social and Political Thought at York University.

Anita lectures and presents at universities, conferences and game development studios internationally. She’s been a presenter and panelist at various fan, media and technology conferences and has also facilitated and taught multi-day filmmaking workshops.  She has been interviewed and featured in publications such as Forbes, Wired, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and The New York Times. Her videos are freely available via the Feminist Frequency YouTube channel and widely serve as educational tools in high school and university classrooms.

Anita’s first book History vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You To Know, co-written with Ebony Adams is out now.

TALK TOPICS

A Decade of Progress and Backlash (2010-2019)
In this talk, feminist pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian takes a look back at the sweeping changes that have happened in the ways we experience and talk about media over the past ten years, and how our heated cultural debates about video games and other media are directly linked to larger struggles over who holds power in our political systems and our culture. In so doing, she sets the stage for the decade ahead, in which we all have a choice to make, and a part to play, in shaping our shared cultural destiny.

I Am So Tired: The Costs of Online Harassment
What is it like to be a public figure who is known more for the targeted acts of aggression and hate directed at you than for the creative or scholarly work you produce? Despite garnering critical acclaim and popular support for her groundbreaking feminist exploration of video games, media critic Anita Sarkeesian knows that her public perception remains tied to, and is often overshadowed by, her experiences during GamerGate. In this talk, Sarkeesian recounts the formative experiences that made her into the activist she is today before she unpacks the ways that the behavior of online harassers upholds and furthers a reactionary political agenda and silences the voices of women everywhere.

History vs. Women: Resistance is Fertile 
Throughout human history and across the globe, women have been quietly — and in some cases, not so quietly — resisting the forces that seek to contain their brilliance, creativity, and power. As their stories fade into myth and their lives vanish from our memories, our understanding of who we are, and who we can be, is all the poorer. This talk shares the stories of some of the amazing women our history books have left out, and offers an argument for the reasons why knowledge of their accomplishments is so dangerous to the forces of patriarchy.

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