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		<title>Full IGN interview with Anita Sarkeesian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I was interviewed by Paul Dean for an article at IGN entitled &#8220;Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Why it Matters&#8221;. Our conversation touched on a wide array of topics, including my experiences with games growing up, heroic women of the 1800s, and how I&#8217;ve responded to the organized harassment campaigns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damsel in Distress (Part 2) Tropes vs Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 20:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRIGGER WARNING: This video contains a handful of graphic scenes involving violence against women. Parents should preview the video first before sharing with young children. VIDEO DESCRIPTION This is the second in a series of three videos exploring the Damsel in Distress trope in video games. In this installment we look at “dark and edgy” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damsel in Distress (Part 1) Tropes vs Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered cliché in the history of gaming and why the trope  has been core to the popularization and development of the medium itself. As a trope the Damsel in Distress is a plot device in which a female character is placed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEDxWomen Talk about Online Harassment &amp; Cyber Mobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.feministfrequency.com/?p=4787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I was excited to participate in this year&#8217;s TEDxWomen in Washington, DC, an annual event organized by the Paley Center for Media. I presented a 10 minute talk about sexist online harassment, cyber mobs and both the destructive and uplifting power of online communities. In this talk, I use the analogy of an MMO (Massively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Television Interview about Harassment in Gaming</title>
		<link>http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/11/television-interview-about-harassment-in-gaming/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=television-interview-about-harassment-in-gaming</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.feministfrequency.com/?p=4574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was interviewed for a TV segment on Canada’s Global News about my experience and the wider epidemic of harassment women face in gaming spaces. Also interviewed were Grace from the website Fat, Ugly or Slutty, Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch founder of game studio Silicon Sisters Interactive &#38; James Portnow from the gaming web show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Tropes vs Women Project Update</title>
		<link>http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/08/quick-tropes-vs-women-projec-update/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=quick-tropes-vs-women-projec-update</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.feministfrequency.com/?p=3807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently shared a long update with our backers over on the Tropes vs Women in Video Games Kickstarter page detailing our progress on pre-production and game research as well as equipment, software and website infrastructure upgrades. We also revealed more about the expanding scope of this project including another bonus video we have in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anita on CBC Radio&#8217;s &#8220;The Current&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/anita-on-cbc-radios-the-current/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=anita-on-cbc-radios-the-current</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.feministfrequency.com/?p=3446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 3, 2012, I was interviewed on CBC&#8217;s morning show &#8220;The Current&#8221; about sexism in gaming and online harassment.  Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch of Silicon Sisters Interactive, a videogame studio owned and run by women, is also on the show discussing her experiences working in the industry. Listen to the full interview – Women and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Image Based Harassment and Visual Misogyny</title>
		<link>http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassment-and-visual-misogyny/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=image-based-harassment-and-visual-misogyny</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 06:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.feministfrequency.com/?p=3085</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m making it a point to strategically share some of the online harassment I’ve received after launching my Tropes vs Women in Video Games Kickstarter. I’ve already posted about the harassment via YouTube and Wikipedia but these were not the only abusive cyber mob tactics employed to try and silence me. After struggling with whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kickstarter Project Funded with 6967 Backers!</title>
		<link>http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/kickstarter-project-funded-with-6967-backers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kickstarter-project-funded-with-6967-backers</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.feministfrequency.com/?p=2840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An absolutely astonishing 6,967 of you pledged $158,917 to support Tropes vs Women in Video Games! Who knew running a Kickstarter campaign could be such a roller coaster ride!? I am truly and sincerely honored by the outpouring of support for this project.  It gives me great hope to see that so many people of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harassment via Wikipedia Vandalism</title>
		<link>http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-and-misogyny-via-wikipedia/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=harassment-and-misogyny-via-wikipedia</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know a harassment campaign is being waged against me because of my Tropes vs Women in Video Games project on Kickstarter. This coordinated attack was launched by various online video game forums and has included attempts to get my accounts banned, a torrent of hate on YouTube, plus countless threats of violence, [...]]]></description>
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