Dr. Shayne’s students publish Badass Womxn and Enbies in the Pacific Northwest, volume 5

Students in Dr. Julie Shayne’s Rad Womxn in the Global South spring 2026 class published volume five of the open access zine called, “Badass Womxn and Enbies in the Pacific Northwest.”

This year’s students called themselves The Zinedom Writers: a fusion of “zine” and “freedom.” The class works collectively, in small groups, to build the zine. Dr. Shayne and a peer facilitator, Imaan Mohiuddin, oversee all the groups and make sure everything stays on track.

This year’s zine includes 28 badasses from the Pacific Northwest, some living, some passed on. They include athletes, educators, politicians, scientists, doctors, artists, and more. They hail from Indigenous and Latinx communities, and the Asian and African diasporas; they are Black, and Brown; they are US and foreign born; they are young and older, queer and straight, cis gender, trans, and non-binary. Each badass is illustrated by Vivian Ma and the cover designed by Dain BaughnSmith.

The zine project started the first time Shayne taught the class in 2019 and Digital Scholarship Librarian Denise Hattwig and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) librarian Penelope Wood co-created the assignment. Shayne, Hattwig and Wood went on to win a Connected Learning Excellence Award for the assignment. You can see the first four editions, the video from the first edition, and open access work from Shayne’s other classes on the Feminist Digital Center that she co-created with Denise Hattwig and GWSS alum Tessa Denton. To learn more about the origins of the Feminist Digital Center, visit the Journal of Feminist Scholarship, for a paper co-authored by Shayne, Hattwig and Denton.