Thread by @xolotl

A thread🧵 on open images:

I often use @WPOpenverse and @Flickr to find free and open images to use in other works, but today I found additional collections that greatly enrich discovery.

Big thanks to @rodriguesjm6 for leading me some of these! 1/

2/ The Disabled And Here Collection is a disability-led effort to provide free and inclusive photos and illustrations celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) from Portland's own @AffectTheVerb, all licensed #CCBY: affecttheverb.com/collection/

3/ The Greats is a collection of free and open illustrations from great artists, designed to change the world from @fine_acts, organized around topics like #BLM, #ClimateChange, #HumanRights and more, all with CC BY-NC-SA licenses: thegreats.co

4/ @nappystock is a collection of beautiful photos of black and brown people, all dedicated to the public domain using #CC0: nappy.co

5/ The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés of putting on makeup and holding trans flags, all licensed #CCBYNCND: genderphotos.vice.com

6/ The age-positive image library is a collection of stock photos depicting older people in non-stereotypical ways from @Ageing_Better, all dedicated to the public domain via #CC0: ageing-better.org.uk/news/age-posit…

7/ Open Peeps is a unique, hand-drawn illustration library from @pablostanley, all dedicated to the public domain via #CC0: openpeeps.com

8/ I came across a lot of other sites that offer diverse/inclusive/different resources, but didn't include them either because they don't use standard @creativecommons licenses and so make reuse more complex...

9/ ...or because the sites seemed mostly like freemium offerings for commercial services. Nothing wrong with those, but that's not what I was collecting in this thread.

10/ I'd love to hear about any other collections you know about that use standard open licenses, especially when the collections offer imagery or other content that is not widely available from traditional sources. Add your suggestions here, or my DMs are open.