Why the lobster emoji has become an unlikely ally to the trans community

It seems like there’s an emoji for everything — from the world’s favorite cry-laughing face to one of Twitter’s least popular emoji, the aerial tramway. The Unicode Consortium (the group who decides what emoji make it onto our phones) has managed to clog up our keyboards with hundreds of emoji that we’ll probably never use, I mean, when was the last time you used the ABCD emoji in conversation? But while there seems to be an emoji to represent everyone and everything, a significant group has been completely left out — the transgender community. Charlie Craggs, a British activist and author of To My Trans Sisters, has started…

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https://ift.tt/2AMrLrD Cara Curtis August 06, 2018 at 09:00AM