Queering Stock Photos

I saw this article recently and thought it was really exciting and thought-provoking. The idea is that this organization The Gender Spectrum Collection created a stock photo library with photos of queer, gender nonconforming people etc. I thought this was so interesting because of its mundanity. Stock photos are an integral part of the fabric of our online lives, yet also seem incredibly unimportant and boring. Most memes involve making fun of these odd stock photos. But even as we mock them, we accept them as normalizing snapshots of our lives. We see them so often, it would be difficult to not internalize them as "generic" or stock views of what people look like. I've considered before how normative these photos are, but never considered that it would be possible to change this. But here we have people who've created stock photos that are just as lame and generic as "normal" stock photos, except that they remind us that people can look all sorts of ways! It's interesting to think about in what other mundane parts of life help reinforce compulsory heterosexuality.