I was invited to speak at Utah State University on Wednesday October 15th, 2014 about women’s representations in video games. Sadly, the university received a series of emails threatening to commit “the deadliest school shooting in American history” if I was allowed to speak on campus. When USU and Utah police refused to screen attendees for firearms, citing the state’s concealed carry laws, I was forced to cancel the event. Below is a round up of media interviews I have done recently speaking about the threats in Utah, the epidemic of gendered harassment online, and the larger problem of sexism within the games industry as a whole.
Print & Web
- New York Times [front page] – Feminist Critics of Video Games Facing Threats in ‘GamerGate’ Campaign (Oct 15, 2014)
- Rolling Stone Magazine – Anita Sarkeesian on GamerGate: ‘We Have a Problem and We’re Going to Fix This’ (Oct 17, 2014)
- The Guardian – Gamergate is loud, dangerous and a last grasp at cultural dominance by angry white men (Oct 21, 2014)
- Salt Lake City Tribune – Utah lawmaker: State colleges can’t limit guns (Oct 15, 2014)
- Salt Lake City Tribune – Anita Sarkeesian explains why she canceled USU lecture (Oct 16, 2014)
- Associated Press – Feminist speaker questions Utah’s campus gun laws (Oct 15, 2014)
- Game Informer magazine – Critique & Controversy (November 2014 – Print/iPad only)
Radio
- NPR’s All Things Considered – One Feminist Critic’s Battle With Gaming’s Darker Side (Oct 18, 2014)
Television
- MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show – Can gaming industry culture be changed? (Oct 19, 2014)
- Democracy Now – “Women Are Being Driven Offline”: Feminist Anita Sarkeesian Terrorized for Critique of Video Games (Oct 20, 2014)
- CBS This Morning – “Gamergate,” guns and threats against women collide in Utah (Oct 16, 2014)
- Fox 13 Salt Lake City – Feminist gamer won’t speak at Utah schools until guns prohibited (Oct 16, 2014)