Image Based Harassment and Visual Misogyny
I’m making it a point to strategically share some of the online harassment I’ve received after launching my Tropes vs Women in Video Games Kickstarter. I’ve already posted about the harassment via...
View ArticleTEDxWomen Talk about Online Harassment & Cyber Mobs
I was excited to participate in this year’s TEDxWomen in Washington, DC, an annual event organized by the Paley Center for Media. I presented a 10 minute talk about sexist online harassment, cyber...
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Examples of Sexist Harassment on Twitter
Yes please, explain to me again how this has nothing to do with sexism. [TRIGGER WARNING for extreme misogyny, gendered slurs, sexual harassment, sexual violence, victim blaming, graphic rape and death...
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Repost: On Friday, Anita Sarkeesian called out “toxic masculinity” on Twitter
This article is written by David Futrelle and reposted from We Hunted the Mammoth What a surreal life Anita Sarkeesian must lead, in which virtually everything she says and does becomes grist for the...
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One Week of Harassment on Twitter
Ever since I began my Tropes vs Women in Video Games project, two and a half years ago, I’ve been harassed on a daily basis by irate gamers angry at my critiques of sexism in video games. It can...
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‘What I Couldn’t Say’ Panel at All About Women
I was invited to speak on several panels about feminism and the impacts of online harassment at the 2015 All About Women conference taking place annually at the Sydney Opera House. Here is a video of...
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UN Report on Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls
I visited the United Nations on September 24th to speak at the launch of the Broadband Commission Working Group on Gender’s Report on Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls. At the event, I spoke...
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Talking Publicly About Harassment Generates More Harassment
A few months ago, I posted a series of tweets about some of the most disturbing and vile sexual harassment I have received online. (Read my entire series of tweets here) Because the behaviors of online...
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Speak Up & Stay Safe(r): A Guide to Protecting Yourself From Online Harassment
Three women who have survived sustained online abuse are releasing an easy-to use digital handbook designed to help others speak freely and safely in digital spaces. Anita Sarkeesian director of...
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Harassment Through Impersonation: The Creation of a Cyber Mob
At last year’s XOXO festival, I spoke about two insidious ways that online harassment manifests: conspiracy theories and impersonation. I’d like to share an especially pernicious example of the latter,...
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On Twitter, Conspiracy Theories, and Information Cascades
On February 9th, Twitter announced the formation of a council made up of over 40 organizations, of which Feminist Frequency is one. These organizations are not involved in micromanaging Twitter on a...
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Anita Sarkeesian on The Colbert Report
On October 30, 2014, Anita Sarkeesian was invited to be a guest on The Colbert Report to discuss online harassment and the sexist representations of women in video games. You can watch the opening...
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Amplify Your Involvement, Action 1: Safety
Yesterday, we shared the first action in our four-week series on ways to Amplify Your Involvement this December. For this inaugural week, we’re talking about safety. At Feminist Frequency, we know that...
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On VidCon, Harassment & Garbage Humans
To kick off the Women Online panel at VidCon last Thursday, the moderator posed the question: Why do we still have to talk about the harassment of women? I replied, “Because I think one of my biggest...
View ArticleFeminist Answering Machine: Emily Kelleher-Best on #MeToo
This week, Emily Kelleher-Best, the founder and CEO of the great movie crowdfunding platform and streaming service Seed&Spark, calls in to our state-of-the-art, one-of-a-kind Feminist Answering...
View ArticleOne Weird Trick for Helping Women
Hey guys. Would you like to start helping put a stop to sexual predators and rapists before they spend decades assaulting women? Would you like to help curtail dangerous and deadly political movements...
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The Power of a Positive Tweet
I recently had the pleasure of visiting BioWare’s Edmonton office, where I met and had tea with a group of fantastic women who work there, and with a few male allies, too. However, when I shared about...
View ArticleWhat Is Intersectionality? The FREQ Show: Meet Me at the Corner (of...
There’s a good chance that you’ve heard the term “intersectionality” a lot in recent years. But do you know the fascinating story of where the term comes from? And do you know what it actually means?...
View ArticleFFR #33: W. Kamau Bell’s New Comedy Special and the Very Real Dangers of...
This week on FFR, the dynamic trio discusses the new Netflix comedy special by self-proclaimed “heterosexual cisgender dad man” W. Kamau Bell, Private School Negro, which gets into matters of white...
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Image Based Harassment and Visual Misogyny
I’m making it a point to strategically share some of the online harassment I’ve received after launching my Tropes vs Women in Video Games Kickstarter. I’ve already posted about the harassment via...
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