As the medium of gaming has matured, so too has the subject matter of games. The cultural footprint of games has grown so much over the past few decades that it is starting to be weighed alongside ...
Gaming industry veteran Anita Sarkeesian launched a harassment hotline for the entire gaming industry amid a turning point in the industry. The Games and Online Harassment Hotline is available to ...
She started with a YouTube account and wound up on the front page of the New York Times. In between, all that the Canadian-American feminist cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian did, via her video series ...
After an anonymous email threatens a deadly school shooting, the feminist media critic backs out of a speaking engagement at Utah State University. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...
The first episode of Anita Sarkeesian's video series on gaming: Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games, has been published to her Youtube channel. Damsel in Distress deals with the ubiquitous representation ...
When the 2014 Game Developers Choice Ambassador Award was given to Anita Sarkeesian, the Internet and gaming world went abuzz. Sarkeesian is the first woman to win the award. She came to the attention ...
Years ago, when I wrote about the fashion industry, I put together a slide show that married my feminist impulses with my love for my beat. I had become appalled at the way women were depicted in ...
Before the bomb threats, GamerGate, or the violent emails and tweets, Anita Sarkeesian had a provocative idea. The feminist cultural critic, who'd taken on the likes of LEGO and Dollhouse-era Joss ...
Six years ago, the nonprofit media organization Feminist Frequency debuted its “Tropes Vs. Women in Games” series, a comprehensive look at how the game industry characterized female characters in ...