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This ‘Homoji’ Keyboard Brings Queer Shorthand To Your Text Messages

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Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 16.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, social media
Summary | A new emoji keyboard is available: Homoji. It includes emojis relevant to the gay community and culture such as 'gym bunnies' or 'otters' which are type-identifiers in the male gay community. Other emojis include colorful pieces of text of the words 'slay' or 'yaas'.
Image Description | A preview of the new available homojis.
Image Tags | emojis

We’re Finally Getting A Hijab Emoji

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Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 14.11.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The Unicode Consortium has revealed a bunch of new emojis that will be implemented in its newest version. Included are an emoji with a woman wearing a hijab, a breastfeeding emoji, a mermaid emoji, different emojis with people sitting in the lotus position, and many more facial expession emojis such as a vomiting emoji and a crazy eyes laughing emoji. There is however no knowing whether smartphone companies or social media channels will include all new emojis on their devices/platforms.
Image Description | Some of the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis

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