Stephen Colbert identifies himself as a “gamer,” so it was no surprise that the “Colbert Report” host tackled the controversy known as “Gamergate” on his show Wednesday night. And to help educate ...
Slay the Spire 2 is being review bombed by people who seem to otherwise like the game, solely because Anita Sarkeesian is in the credits.
In mid-October, I was approached by some Gamergaters who wanted to show me something important. They had bagged a big one, they said. They said they had tracked down one of the people who was sending ...
Reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — Four years ago Anita Sarkeesian was a Web designer who made feminist YouTube videos in her spare time. Her budget was small and so was her audience: The videos got a ...
“I want freedom, the right to self-expression,” turn-of-the-century activist Emma Goldman once said when a man chided her for dancing. “Everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.” Those words, ...
The years-long campaign of online abuse against Anita Sarkeesian is both extraordinary and mundane; the phenomenon of women who are experts in their field being attacked and undermined is, after all, ...
Diversity, equity, and inclusion has been a hot button topic in the games industry over the past decade, with numerous companies embracing DEI efforts in the wake of scandals and tragedies that ...
I missed the whole Anita Sarkeesian debate a while back, but from what I've heard, it just makes me shake my head. The gist of it appears to be that Ms. Sarkeesian had a Kickstarter which asked for a ...
As a feminist cultural critic, Anita Sarkeesian is used to asking tough questions. In her Feminist Frequency video series “Tropes vs. Women” and “Video Games vs. Women,” Sarkeesian challenges ...
Pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian launched a Kickstarter campaign a few days ago in hopes of raising $6,000 to make a series of feminist-critique videos about the roles women play in videogames. She ...
Feminist culture critic Anita Sarkeesian was forced to cancel a speaking engagement at Utah State University on Wednesday because of threats against her and the ...