The ban of Feminist Voices, a social media group with over 180,000 followers which was founded in 2009, is the latest move from the Chinese government to silence women’s voices in China.

But, the women are fighting back by cleverly using emojis as a kind of code to discuss women’s progress. Since they can no longer use the #MeToo hashtag, they’re instead sharing #RiceBunny, along with an emoji of a rice bowl and bunny face emoji. When spoken aloud the words for “rice bunny” are pronounced “mi tu,” a homophone that cleverly evades detection.

“The movement has the potential to become large-scale, which is one of the reasons why the government sees this group of young feminists as a threat to Communist rule,” says Leta Hong Fincher, a founding member.

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