Comedian Hari Kondabolu

“It started as a stress relief, drawing pictures of people I love,” says Oluo of the soon-to-be-published Badass Feminist Coloring Book. “A lot of them happened to be feminists. I was doing the drawings on the computer but they didn’t have that tactile feeling, so I started printing coloring book pages. Then I decided it would be fun to make it a group project so I asked people if they would send me pictures. Then it just took off!”

The book, which began as a small-scale project for a few dozen friends, turned almost overnight into an internationally crowd-sourced production. It took only two days on Kickstarter for the book to reach its $4,000 funding goal. In the end, more than 600 people contributed more than $21,000 to bring the project to life.

For Oluo, the thrust behind her badass coloring book—which will feature known folks like activist Bree Newsome, who took down South Carolina’s Confederate Flag, and GQ writer Lindy West, as well as lesser known folks like Leticia and Zoe Barba, sisters from California—is visibility. “It can be really frustrating if you’re a woman to try and have any visibility,” she says, “to feel people are representing you at all.”

Oluo wants to give voice to those who champion gender equality—including men (comedian Hari Kondabolu, for example, will be included). She also wants to make sure she includes feminists from all corners of the world. “I wanted to make sure it’s not specifically a Western book,” she explains. “I want it to be as diverse as possible—Jewish feminists, Latin American feminists.”

Which also means including people of all races who have all kinds of bodies. Oluo says it’s fun “to celebrate each other, to view the faces and bodies of people who aren’t usually celebrated.”