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 ...

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, ...

New Emoji include 'tiny penis' and 'period blood,' according to the Internet. Dalvin Brown. USA TODAY. Editor's note: This story includes content that some readers might find offensive.

The most popular period emoji will be submitted to the Unicode Consortium for consideration. If it’s approved, we’ll see it on our keyboards in 2018.

Period emoji created to help girls talk about menstruation. Organizers hope the symbol will end the stigma, silence and “shame" around periods. Feb. 8, 2019, 12:25 PM EST / Source: TODAY.

On Monday night, Busy Philipps got candid about periods during a discussion of Apple's new period emoji. "I guess I talk about my period a lot. I bleed once a month, it's happening right now. I ...

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… ...

There's officially a "blood drop" emoji which will be added to smartphones by spring this year. This could be the first step in ending period shame.

“We’re getting a period emoji and it’s bloody brilliant news,” one person wrote, while another said: "I can't wait to use this as the emoji for my period when I track it on my calendar.

Period emoji will give us another way to talk about menstruation; but more than anything, we just need to talk about it. A period emoji may sound silly, but here's why it's important.

Apple has added nearly 400 new emoji as part of its latest iOS update, including gender-neutral people and a blood drop to represent menstruation.