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 couple of thousand views at best. This was before she launched her first fundraising campaign. When Sarkeesian sought $6,000 on Kickstarter for a video series on the portrayal of women in video games, she attracted the attention — and the ire — of gamers…
After Gamergate, Anita Sarkeesian has a new focus: History’s overlooked women
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