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.

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 ...

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 ...

Plan International U.K. claims the new period emoji will drop in March 2019, though Unicode says to expect it sometime late summer. Sure, we would have loved a cute little tampon emoji or, ...

Unicode just released its 2019 Emoji list, and the update included 230 new texting symbols, including a pinching fingers gesture that people on Twitter say represents a small penis and a drop of ...

The pair of period pants emoji (top right) raked in 18,700 votes but was sadly (and not really surprisingly) rejected by the almighty Unicode Consortium.

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 .

The decision to introduce the symbol follows extensive work from Plan International UK, which first submitted a bid for a “period pants” emoji after a 2017 survey found half of women in the 18 ...

More than 100 new emoji were officially announced on Wednesday, among them more inclusive emoji, a “pinched fingers emoji,” and a dodo bird. But one emoji in particular—the newly introduced ...

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 ...