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 harassers is sitting in the front row.” He showed up with several others; together, his group took up the […]
Category: Harassment
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 speaking out and speaking up for a more equitable virtual world, and the compassionate treatment of one another, can be met with criticism and harassment. […]
December 7th, 2016
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 daily basis or making decisions with regards to action taken against accounts or tweets, but rather, have been assembled to consult with Twitter generally about how […]
February 22nd, 2016
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, which demonstrates how harassers can make use of malicious impersonation to deliberately incite a vicious cybermob. On July 12, I made a few tweets criticizing the […]
December 10th, 2015
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 Feminist Frequency, Jaclyn Friedman, anti-rape activist and founder of Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) and Renee Bracey Sherman, reproductive justice activist and author of Saying […]
December 8th, 2015
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 harassers are often so predictable, I feared that doing this would result in a flood of similar harassment, but I […]
October 29th, 2015
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 about the need for social media sites to reimagine how their systems function in order to build tools that actively deter online […]
September 25th, 2015
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 my speech for the panel entitled, “What I Couldn’t Say.”
March 21st, 2015
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 sometimes be difficult to effectively communicate just how bad this sustained intimidation campaign really is. So I’ve […]
January 27th, 2015
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June 24th, 2016
A piece I co-wrote with Katherine Cross on the dynamics of sexist harassment in online gaming is featured in the new essay collection The State of Play: Creators […]
October 20th, 2015
