Anita Sarkeesian, founder of Feminist Frequency, the excellent women-in-pop-culture Web series that was a magnet for misogynistic video gamers long before Gamergate, has announced her newest project—and it looks pretty great. She’ll be turning her attention away from the often noxious world of games, toward feminist history, with a new animated video series called Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History.
Each episode will focus on a female leader or innovator and will be animated in a style inspired by the subject and her era: silent and black and white for Emma Goldman, Heian period art for Murasaki Shikibu. Sarkeesian, along with producer Elisabeth Aultman and writer (and Slate contributor) Laura Hudson, are hoping telling these women’s stories will help “shift perceptions of what girls and women can do,” according to the project’s website. As with Feminist Frequency’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, the series will be crowdfunded, with reward tiers for contributors ranging from a credit on their website to a personalized screening and Q&A with the creative team. You can watch Sarkeesian explain the series below, and visit the crowdfunding site here:
