<img width="640" height="892" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hijab1-1005x1400.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Emoji guidance illustration of person in tan headscarf" loading="lazy" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hijab1-1005x1400.png 1005w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hijab1-215x300.png 215w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hijab1-1103x1536.png 1103w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hijab1.png 1437w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="39775" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/03/23/the-hijab-emoji-normalizing-identity/hijab1/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hijab1.png" data-orig-size="1437,2001" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="hijab1" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hijab1-215x300.png" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hijab1-1005x1400.png" /><p>What emoji do you use to represent yourself? For Rayouf Alhumedhi in 2015, at the time a 15-year-old Saudi student living in Berlin, there wasn’t an emoji to represent her. Rayouf is Muslim and wears a hijab. In a group chat, each of Rayouf’s friends (who don’t wear headscarves) used the female emoji to represent...</p><p>The post <a href="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/03/23/the-hijab-emoji-normalizing-identity/">The Hijab Emoji: Normalizing Identity</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.cooperhewitt.org">Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum</a>.</p>
