Anita Sarkeesian is feminist video blogger and activist who focuses on women in popular culture and their associations with tropes

Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the usage of figurative language in literature, or a figure of speech in which words are used in a sense different from their literal meaning...

. She maintains a YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

 channel, which has had more than one million views. She also blogs for Bitch Magazine

Bitch (magazine)

bitch, whose tagline is feminist response to pop culture, is an independent, quarterly magazine published in Portland, Oregon with more than 50,000 readers. bitch magazine is one branch of the reader-supported non-profit organization bitch media...

 under the name of FeministFrequency and also has her own website. Her videos have been part of university Women's Studies

Women's studies

Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective...

' courses.

Sarkeesian earned a bachelors degree in Communication Studies from California State University-Northridge in 2007 and a Master’s degree in Social and Political Thought from York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

 in 2010.

External links

• Sophie Perrault. "My Interview with Feminist Frequency's Anita Sarkeesian". Text Appeal, 1/17/2011.
• "Feminism in Focus: Anita Sarkeesian". nist.tv.