Emma Watson shares custom emoji on International Women's Day
International Women's Day has taken over Twitter with hashtags that celebrate female strength and empowerment.
Amidst #IWD2016, #SheInspiresMe and marketing gambits like #StrengthHasNoGender, actress Emma Watson, a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, upped the ante with a custom #HeForShe emoji.
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Watson has previously spoken on behalf of HeForShe, a UN initiative to enlist men in the fight for global gender equality.
The emoji is just a simple rendering of the HeForShe logo, but it quickly got the only endorsement that matters. Soon after Watson tweeted, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling weighed in with, "Nice emoji!"
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Rebecca Ruiz is a Senior Reporter at Mashable. She frequently covers mental health, digital culture, and technology. Her areas of expertise include suicide prevention, screen use and mental health, parenting, youth well-being, and meditation and mindfulness. Rebecca's experience prior to Mashable includes working as a staff writer, reporter, and editor at NBC News Digital and as a staff writer at Forbes. Rebecca has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a masters degree from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
