@darius @oldroadside

When I read your original question, I was thinking not about the source of the materials, but the place depicted, in order to think about who you should consult and how you might handle the challenge of images with racist or otherwise oppressive content.

It did make me think: it's possible to imagine a "curation bot" that actually uses this problem to help folks learn. So instead of posting images directly, the project has a group of curators from communities whose oppression or abuse might be portrayed - so in the USAian case, Black Americans, Latinx, Asian Americans, Native Americans. The images go first to them, and they add content to the images - calling out dogwhistles, showing the origins of hate iconography, surfacing historical details of a place - and that bundle, image+curation, is what gets posted.

Of course I would argue that car culture itself is structural violence on a staggering scale, intersectional with racist and gendered structural violence, and that would also be interesting to curate in these images.

I mean, wow, the bomber gas station in Oregon. I remember that place.What could you say with that as your starting point?

But as you say, someone already got there.