Gamergate critic Brianna Wu is planning to run for public office in 2018.

In the gaming world, Wu has earned a reputation battling the online harassment campaign known as Gamergate, a fight that led to rape and murder threats from the darker recesses of the male-dominated realm.

Now the 39-year-old Boston-based software engineer is setting her sights on another male-dominated institution: Congress.

Gamergate critic Brianna Wu, who made headlines two years ago when she was threatened, said she wants to run for one of Massachusetts' nine U.S. House seats (July photo)

On Tuesday, Wu posted a photograph of the Capitol Building on Facebook Tuesday, which announced 'Fearless leadership for 2018'

Wu, a Democrat and Hillary Clinton supporter, said she made the decision almost immediately after the November election.

'On election night I was standing 30 feet from where Hillary should have accepted the presidency. I had planned to go back to Boston and work on shipping our next game, but I knew I couldn't do that,' Wu said Thursday in an email, calling President-elect Donald Trump 'an incredible threat to the United States and American values.'

She's said she wants her campaign to focus in part on privacy rights and online harassment, but also on the wider economy which she said is rigged against Massachusetts families.

Wu's said said she wants her campaign to focus in part on privacy rights and online harassment, but also on the wider economy which she said is rigged against Massachusetts families

Wu is lead engineer at the video game company Giant Spacekat.

She rose to prominence after becoming a target of Gamergate, which has subjected several women in the video-game industry to misogynistic threats after surfacing in the summer of 2014.

The threats became so intense that Wu and her husband had to leave their home.

On Tuesday, Wu posted a photograph of the Capitol Building on Facebook Tuesday.

The image was captioned: 'It begins.'

Wu tweeted Thursday: 'If elected to the House, I promise that I will be one of our nation's fiercest voices for women's rights, LGBT rights and #blacklivesmatter.'

While Wu says she wants to run for one of Massachusetts' nine U.S. House seats, she has not announced which one.

She said it will be in the greater Boston area and she won't challenge Rep. Katherine Clark, whose district covers a swath of the city's northern and western suburbs.

In the gaming world, Wu has earned a reputation battling the online harassment campaign known as Gamergate, a fight that led to rape and murder threats from the darker recesses of the male-dominated realm

Clark has championed bills in Congress aimed at cracking down on the kinds of online harassment that Wu faced.

Clark said earlier this year that she began fighting online harassment after hearing Wu's story.

As a political novice, Wu faces the daunting challenge of unseating an incumbent Democrat.

Wu posted this tweet on Thursday, saying she's heard her running for Congress gives others hope

Wu told VentureBeat: 'I'd hope to serve on the House technology subcommittee.

'It was very disturbing to me to see members of the House tie the Mirai botnet (malware that hijacks computers) to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), simply parroting special interests.

'It's an example of how our tech policy doesn't serve the American people.

'We need people making policy that actually understand technology, that understand the assault on our privacy.

'It's a national security issue, and we're failing badly.'

Wu tweeted Thrusday she will be 'will be one of our nation's fiercest voices for women's rights, LGBT rights and #blacklivesmatter'

She posted this follow-up message on Twitter Thursday

She told the website: 'The reason I decided to run is simple: [President-elect Donald] Trump is terrifyingly now in the White House.'

Wu also explained to VentureBeat: 'I didn't personally support Sanders in the primary, but he tapped into a very powerful disconnect between our party’s leadership and our base.

'We want leaders that will fight for us, and all too often the Democrats don't stand up to the fringe extreme of the Republican Party.'

Wu tweeted that she spent Friday interviewing staff for her political campaign