{"id":6846,"date":"2019-05-09T12:07:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T11:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T11:07:36","slug":"google-is-adding-gender-fluid-emojis-to-android-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=6846","title":{"rendered":"Google is adding &quot;gender-fluid&quot; emojis to Android Q"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- m -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5751019935\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Of over 3000 emojis, 53 new ones are set to be introduced. Google has recently announced that Android Q users will now be able to use &#8220;gender-fluid&#8221; emojis. The emojis, which appear to be neither male nor female are an attempt to give an emoji-dentity to people who don&#8217;t specifically identify with a gender.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/figure>\n<p>Google designer Jennifer Daniel, said to <i>Fast Company, <\/i>&#8220;There\u2019s no singular way of getting it right. Gender is complicated. It is an impossible task to communicate gender in a single image. It\u2019s a construct. It lives dynamically on a spectrum. I personally don\u2019t believe there is one visual design solution at all, but I do believe to avoid it is the wrong approach here. We can\u2019t avoid race, gender, any other number of things in culture and class. You have to stare it in the face in order to understand it. That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do\u2013to [find] the signifiers that make something feel either male or female, or both male and female.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5511153269\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"image photo\" data-model=\"image\" data-pk=\"8538\" data-thumb=\"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1557400054_285_Google-is-adding-quotgender-fluidquot-emojis-to-Android-Q.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\" src=\"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1557400054_285_Google-is-adding-quotgender-fluidquot-emojis-to-Android-Q.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Specifically, the gender neutralisation method differentiates per character. Through the use of mid-length hair, attire, for example the use of an androgynous chain for the vampire rather than a bow-tie representing men or choker representing women. The merperson&#8217;s chest is covered by their arms in order to conceal its chest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"5\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 5 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9258826580\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/culture\/4781\/google-is-adding-gender-fluid-emojis-to-android-q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 3 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2884989920\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Of over 3000 emojis, 53 new ones are set to be introduced. Google has recently announced that Android Q users will now be able to use &#8220;gender-fluid&#8221; emojis. The emojis, which appear to be neither male nor female are an attempt to give an emoji-dentity to people who don&#8217;t specifically identify with a gender. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}