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The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.

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Anita Sarkeesian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 15
Blogger
Communicator
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Feminist
Journalist
Media Critic
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Television Producer
Youtuber
City of Toronto
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I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.
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I really want to help write women back into history.
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My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to us to have a broad range of women from across generations and cultures. We didn't want to make it Western-focused, we wanted to make sure it was international and that it had an intersectional lens.
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It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.
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The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.
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For me, if folks who are watching YouTube can pitch in a bit to help cover the cost for creating this work, that's great, but I don't want folks who can't helped to not have access to it. I really like the crowdfunding model in that regard.
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I find crowdfunding to be one of the most ethical ways to continue doing the work that we do because the idea is that I want my videos to be free and available to everybody, and that's why I use YouTube and online platforms.
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I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.
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There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.
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One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.
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I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.
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I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.
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