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Following a joint campaign by Plan International UK and the blood service for England, Unicode announced that a blood drop symbol will be among the new emoji released later this year along with 229 other emojis on Twitter.
The intention of the campaign is to break the the stigma and shame around menstruation and normalize the conversation.
Here is how Twitter reached to the news
In 2018 we teamed up with @GiveBloodNHS creating a proposal for a blood drop emoji
For our friends @GiveBloodNHS it represents the importance of blood donation+disorders&for us it's a #PeriodEmoji creating change in the conversation on menstruation
More▶https://t.co/dKd4WwEShX pic.twitter.com/yzxxp5Z4ey
— Plan International UK (@PlanUK) February 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/alwaysbyfelicia/status/1093237228120223745
Yay. I've always wanted a period emoji 😆🙄 pic.twitter.com/4vG8bMrULu
— yecats (@k_stalou) February 7, 2019
girls still have to pay for sanitary products (tampons, pads) but oh yeah there’s a period emoji so we’re thriving ladies 😌😌💅💅
— ellie (@ellieieiee) February 6, 2019
Many argued that the drop of blood may not correctly signify menstruation, but here is what Plan International replied to the tweets.
1/2 We submitted the period pants emoji to the Unicode Consortium, which unfortunately wasn't agreed.
The blood drop emoji design was our runner up when people voted for a period emoji design with thousands of votes from around the world.
— Plan International UK (@PlanUK) February 7, 2019
“For years we’ve obsessively silenced and euphemised periods… An emoji isn’t going to solve this, but it can help change the conversation. Ending the shame around periods begins with talking about it.”
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