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Encore: The internet's fight over dinosaur emoji
This episode originally aired on Jan. 14, 2022.
A few years ago, we brought you the story of how dinosaur emoji had entered the debate about trans rights.
We were reminded of this episode recently when a White House memorandum lambasted NPR for spreading "radical, woke propaganda" and linked to our story as an example. After the memo, President Trump signed an executive order to stop federal funding to NPR and PBS.
We stand by our reporting. And so we decided to bring you the episode again.
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Show notes
- Riley Black, author and science writer
- Jeremy Burge, founder of Emojipedia
- Jurassic emoji set Unicode proposal by Courtney Milan
- Courtney Milan's tweet, saying emoji dinosaurs are trans
- Dinosaur emoji Unicode proposal by Dominik Schwarz
- Transgender flag Unicode proposal by Alda Vigdís
- Pride dinosaur illustrations by u/drawingsauce on r/lgbt
- "The rise of anti-trans 'radical' feminists, explained" (Vox)
Thanks to Dane Grey for this week's artwork. You can find more of their work on Redbubble.
This content was originally created for audio. An auto-generated transcript is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Heads up that some elements (i.e. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.
