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Anita Sarkeesian

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Anita Sarkeesian (born 1983) is a Canadian-American feminist media critic, blogger, and public speaker. [1]

91 relations: ABC News, Academy Awards, Armenians in Iraq, Associated Press, Association for Computing Machinery, École Polytechnique massacre, Bachelor's degree, Bechdel test, Bella Swan, Bitch (magazine), Bloomberg Businessweek, Buffy Summers, Bungie, California, California State University, Northridge, Canadian Americans, ColorLines, Communication studies, Cosmopolitan (magazine), Crash Override Network, Damsel in distress, Doxing, Emma Goldman, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Feminism, Freedom of speech in Canada, Gamasutra, Game Developers Choice Awards, Gamergate controversy, Gender representation in video games, GTFO (film), HuffPost, Ida B. Wells, IGN, Intel, Irish Independent, Kickstarter, Kotaku, Lego, MacArthur Foundation, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Master's degree, Microsoft, Misogyny, Montreal, Moscone Center, National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers, New Statesman, Newsweek, Nightline, ..., Paste (magazine), Popular culture, R v Elliott, Rolling Stone, SAGE Publications, Science fiction, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sexual harassment, Shigeru Miyamoto, Smurfette principle, Standard-Examiner, TED (conference), Television & New Media, The Boston Globe, The Business Journals, The Colbert Report, The Daily Beast, The Escapist (magazine), The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Yorker Radio Hour, The Observer, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Verge, The Washington Post, Time (magazine), Time 100, Toronto, Toronto Standard, Trope (literature), Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, United Nations, Utah State University, Video game culture, Wired (magazine), Women in Refrigerators, Women's studies, XOXO (festival), York University, Zoë Quinn. Expand index (41 more) »

ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Armenians in Iraq

The history of Armenians in Iraq is documented since late Babylonian times.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an international learned society for computing.

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École Polytechnique massacre

The École Polytechnique massacre, also known as the Montreal massacre, was a mass shooting at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that occurred on December 6, 1989.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Bechdel test

The Bechdel test is a method for evaluating the portrayal of women in fiction.

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Bella Swan

Isabella Marie "Bella" Swan (later Bella Cullen) is a character and the protagonist of the ''Twilight'' series, written by Stephenie Meyer.

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Bitch (magazine)

Bitch is an independent, quarterly magazine published in Portland, Oregon.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.

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Buffy Summers

Buffy Anne Summers is the titular character from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise.

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Bungie

Bungie, Inc. is an American video game developer located in Bellevue, Washington, United States.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California State University, Northridge

California State University, Northridge (also known as CSUN) is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, in the San Fernando Valley.

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Canadian Americans

Canadian Americans are American citizens whose ancestry is wholly or partly Canadian.

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ColorLines

Colorlines is a daily news site featuring investigative reporting and news analysis from the perspective of communities of color.

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Communication studies

Communication studies or communication sciences is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication.

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Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international fashion magazine for women, which was formerly titled The Cosmopolitan. The magazine was first published and distributed in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine (since 1965).

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Crash Override Network

Crash Override Network is a support group for victims of large scale online abuse, including revenge porn and doxing.

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Damsel in distress

The damsel-in-distress, persecuted maiden, or princess in jeopardy is a classic theme in world literature, art, film and video games.

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Doxing

Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents) or doxxing is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting private or identifiable information (especially personally identifiable information) about an individual or organization.

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869May 14, 1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Freedom of speech in Canada

Freedom of expression in Canada is protected as a "fundamental freedom" by Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Gamasutra

Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.

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Game Developers Choice Awards

The Game Developers Choice Awards are awards annually presented at the Game Developers Conference for outstanding game developers and games.

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Gamergate controversy

The Gamergate controversy stemmed from a harassment campaign conducted primarily through the use of the hashtag #GamerGate.

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Gender representation in video games

The portrayal of men and women in video games, as in other media, is a subject of research in gender studies and is discussed in the context of sexism in video gaming.

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GTFO (film)

GTFO (also known as GTFO: Get the F&#% Out) is a 2015 American documentary film, directed by Shannon Sun-Higginson, about sexism and women in the world of video games.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Ida B. Wells

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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Intel

Intel Corporation (stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley.

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Irish Independent

The Irish Independent is Ireland's largest-selling daily newspaper, published by Independent News & Media (INM).

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Kickstarter

Kickstarter is an American public-benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity and merchandising.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Lego

Lego (stylized as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.

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MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is the 12th-largest private foundation in the United States.

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Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a stock character type in films.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Misogyny

Misogyny is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Moscone Center

The George R. Moscone Convention Center (popularly known as the Moscone Center, pronounced) is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California.

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National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers

National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers (NAVGTR) is a non-profit organization that promotes and recognizes the interactive entertainment industry.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Nightline

Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is ABC News' late-night news program broadcast on ABC in the United States with a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine published in the United States by Wolfgang's Vault.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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R v Elliott

R v Elliott was a criminal harassment trial based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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SAGE Publications

SAGE Publishing is an independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in California.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Sewanee: The University of the South

Sewanee: The University of the South, also known as Sewanee, is a private, residential, coeducational liberal arts college located in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States.

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

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Shigeru Miyamoto

() is a Japanese video game designer and producer for the video game company Nintendo, currently serving as one of its representative directors.

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Smurfette principle

The Smurfette principle is the practice in fiction, such as film and television series, to include only one woman in an otherwise entirely male ensemble.

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Standard-Examiner

The Standard-Examiner is a daily morning newspaper published in Ogden, Utah, United States.

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TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

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Television & New Media

Television & New Media is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Communication.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Business Journals

The Business Journals is the online media division of American City Business Journals which operates websites for each of the company's 40 print business journals as well as its first web-only local business news and information sites for Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York and Los Angeles, California.

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The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005 to December 18, 2014 for 1,447 episodes.

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The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is an American news and opinion website focused on politics and pop culture.

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The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist (typeset as the escapist) is an online magazine covering mostly video games as well as movies, comics, TV, and more.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

The New Yorker Radio Hour is a radio show and podcast produced by The New Yorker and WNYC Studios.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Salt Lake Tribune

The Salt Lake Tribune is a daily newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah, with the largest weekday circulation but second largest Sunday circulation behind the Deseret News.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news and media network operated by Vox Media.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Time 100

Time 100 (often written in all-caps as TIME 100) is an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by the American news magazine Time.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto Standard

The Toronto Standard was an English language digital newspaper based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

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Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

Tropes vs.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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Utah State University

Utah State University (also referred to as USU or Utah State) is a public doctorate-granting university in Logan, Utah, United States.

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Video game culture

Video game culture is a worldwide new media subculture formed by video games.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Women in Refrigerators

Women in Refrigerators (or WiR) is a website created in 1999 by a group of feminists and comic book fans that lists examples of the comic book trope whereby female characters are injured, killed, or depowered (an event colloquially known as fridging) as a plot device, and seeks to analyze why these plot devices are allegedly used disproportionately on female characters.

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Women's studies

Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in order to place women’s lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and disability.

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XOXO (festival)

XOXO is an annual festival and conference held in Portland, Oregon that describes itself as "celebrating independently produced art and technology." XOXO was founded in 2012 by Andy Baio and Andy McMillan with funding from prepaid tickets and other contributions via Kickstarter, and it was described by the New York Times as an "experimental" conference.

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York University

York University (Université York) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Zoë Quinn

Zoë Tiberius Quinn (born 1987) is an American video game developer, programmer, writer, and artist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian

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