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Damsel in Distress (Part 3) Tropes vs Women 2 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
VIDEO DESCRIPTION This is the third installment in our three part mini-series exploring the Damsel in Distress trope in video games. In this episode we examine the rare Dude in Distress role reversal ...
Full IGN interview with Anita Sarkeesian 7 Jun 2013 | 03:26 am
A few months ago I was interviewed by Paul Dean for an article at IGN entitled “Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Why it Matters”. Our conversation touched on a wide array of topics, including my experi...
Damsel in Distress (Part 2) Tropes vs Women 29 May 2013 | 01:06 am
TRIGGER WARNING: This video contains a handful of graphic scenes involving violence against women. Parents should preview the video first before sharing with young children. VIDEO DESCRIPTION This is ...
Damsel in Distress (Part 1) Tropes vs Women 8 Mar 2013 | 02:33 am
This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered cliché in the history of gaming and why the trope has been core to the popularization and development of the...
TEDxWomen Talk about Online Harassment & Cyber Mobs 6 Dec 2012 | 10:42 am
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 m...
Television Interview about Harassment in Gaming 4 Nov 2012 | 03:08 am
Recently, I was interviewed for a TV segment on Canada’s Global News about my experience and the wider epidemic of harassment women face in gaming spaces. Also interviewed were Grace from the website ...
Quick Tropes vs Women Project Update 2 Aug 2012 | 11:39 am
I recently shared a long update with our backers over on the Tropes vs Women in Video Games Kickstarter page detailing our progress on pre-production and game research as well as equipment, software a...
Anita on CBC Radio’s “The Current” 5 Jul 2012 | 03:06 am
On July 3, 2012, I was interviewed on CBC’s morning show “The Current” about sexism in gaming and online harassment. Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch of Silicon Sisters Interactive, a videogame studio owne...
Anita on CBC Radio’s “The Current” 5 Jul 2012 | 12:06 am
On July 3, 2012, I was interviewed on CBC’s morning show “The Current” about sexism in gaming and online harassment. Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch of Silicon Sisters Interactive, a videogame studio owne...
Image Based Harassment and Visual Misogyny 2 Jul 2012 | 02:04 pm
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 You...
