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Apple shows off new emojis coming to your iPhone - including breastfeeding, hijabi and 'mind blown'

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | New Apple emojis will soon be arriving: they include for instance a breastfeeding, hijab, bearded man, face vomiting, and mind blown emojis.
Image Description | Digital images of the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis

Redheads could FINALLY be getting a ginger emoji after long campaign for equality

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | At a meeting next week, Apple will discuss the introduction of a new Ginger emoji. They will see for instance whether they will introduce a new person with red hair or custom hair tags to existing emojis.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone and choosing a ginger emoji, digital images representing various redhead emojis as well as other emojis
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone

Hijab emoji coming to iPhones next year in victory for Muslim teenager

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 11.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The Unicode consortium is making huge strides in offering more diverse emojis. Users can now select their preferred skin color out of six shades for all humanoid emojis to perfectly represent them. Also, a 15 year old girl from Berlin submitted a draft for a hijab emoji to represent her and millions of other hijabis around the globe.
Image Description | Hijab emoji, a Getty image of a hijabi from behind, a breast feeding emojis and other emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)

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