Grief is everywhere. It always has been, but before social media, it was easier to pretend it wasn't. Now open Facebook, open Instagram, open TikTok and the suffering is omnipresent – the loved one ...
Mockup of emoji skin tones with colors based on the Fitzpatrick Scale. (via Emojipedia) According to Unicode, the international coding standard that ensures symbols and letters appear uniformly across ...
So a lot of times I find myself texting a friend... (SOUNDBITE OF IPHONE NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: ...Or messaging a co-worker... (SOUNDBITE OF SLACK NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: ...And I want to ...
Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ...
Sometimes your favorite app changes its font. Sometimes your boring but trusty eggplant ghosts you (without even a 👻 for good measure). Sometimes you make a new friend and muster the courage to ...
Using skin tone emojis is a seemingly easy choice that in reality can be fraught. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with writer and researcher Zara Rahman about the complexities behind the selection. KHALID: ..