If anything, the period emoji is giving people a way to further avoid talking about periods with actual words. The Week. US Edition. ... Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters.

Unicode has confirmed the period emoji has been given the go-ahead and will hit keyboards in spring 2019. ... Sign up for Mashable’s weekly Trend Report newsletter.

Power to the period — I’m totally obsessed with this new emoji! Turns out, this idea isn’t new. In 2017, the British non-profit Plan International UK launched a campaign to try to make the ...

FROM a waffle to a drop of blood and inter-racial couples – new emojis are set to be launched in 2019. With 59 distinct new emoji types on their way and around 230 new variants, we take a clo… ...

The new emoji is, for many, much more than just a drop of blood — it's a symbol to break down period stigma and shame. In a 2017 survey, Plan International UK found that 48% of girls are ...

Your emoji keyboard may be full of runners and cyclists, nutritious foods, and every sports ball under the sun. But right now, it lacks a health-related icon that represents periods—even though ...

Period Emoji is Finally Here, It Looks More Real And Bloody The new period emoji is finally here and it looks real and bloody. Published: February 8, 2019 5:32 PM IST .

SIGNS THAT YOUR PERIOD PAIN IS NOT NORMAL. 1. ... Campaigners believe adding new period-related characters to the emoji keyboard will make it easier for women to talk about their period.

Over 15,000 people have signed a petition set up by sanitary product company Bodyform calling for “femojis” — period-themed emojis — to be added to the official emoji keyboard. Related ...