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Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly's #1 fastest-growing publisher of 2022 and #3 in 2023. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine, Esquire, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll, as well as on NPR and PBS. Biel is the author of A People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business with Autism, and dozens more. Biel is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & a T-Shirt, and the Groundswell film series. Biel lives in Portland, OR. Find out more at joebiel.net.
Neurodivergent Pride #12: Burnout (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)
by Joe Biel Editor, Partly Robot Contributor and Amelia Nagoski Contributor
Burnout is a topic on everyone's mind since the pandemonium hit in March 2020. But what about autistic burnout? It's a…
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In the 1960s through 1980s, the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the United States, envisioning a world…
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The beginning contains everything that follows after it. That's why the way you start something shapes the way it will…
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It's not always easy to know what you need. We go through our day, and we feel tired, cranky, paralyzed with indecision,…
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It's easy to find ourselves thinking that life is a zero sum game. The more one person has, the less another has.…
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The self that we bring with us to work or to social contexts isn't always the same. We have our good days and our bad…
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Get the first five issues of the compilation zine Your Neurodiverse Friend, bringing together perspectives and personal…
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This compilation zine was created by and for autistic people wanting to take back the r-word and other harmful…
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Neurodivergent Pride #10: Interactions with Police
by Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Kriss De Jong Contributor, Partly Robot Contributor and Seth Graham Author
In this timely and unfortunately perennially relevant zine, author and editor Joe Biel has compiled stories from half a…
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View Details Quick ShopDo Not Pet: How to Become a Service Dog
by Joe Biel Author and Gerta Oparaku Egy Illustrator
Ruby, a service dog who gave author Joe Biel mobility, health, and companionship through the most difficult years of…
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Just about every breakthrough discovery and some of the most innovative inventors in the history of the world have been…
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You made it one year—12 months, 52 weeks, 365 whole days—with no self harm, and we're freaking proud of you! Get…
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Start and grow your successful business your way Unlike any other small business guide out there, A People's Guide to…
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View Details Quick ShopMake a Zine!: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution
by Joe Biel Author with Bill Brent
Do you have a passion that you want to obsess about in a love letter to the world? In this new edition of Microcosm’s…
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View Details Quick ShopHow You Relate To Others
by Joe Biel Author
It is not always easy to be our most authentic selves. We wear masks all the time (and not just to stay safe in a…
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A comprehensive guide to all the questions you never knew you had about boyfriends. If you're looking for a…
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Add to CartBicycle Culture Rising #3: A History of Bicycle Activism in Portland, OR
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In this, the third issue of Joe Biel's award-winning, ongoing look at the Critical Mass movement, we are given a…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Autism Handbook: Everything You Wanted to Know About Life on the Spectrum
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
What's it like to be autistic? As many as one in forty-five people live that reality every day, but our culture remains…
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View Details Quick ShopUnderstanding Eugenics: The U.S. and Nazi Plans to Shape the Gene Pool & Control the Population
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The "science" of eugenics—by which the genetic makeup of a population is shaped by controlling who does and doesn't…
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Robert Smalls: The Enslaved Man Who Stole a Confederate Ship, Broke the Code, & Freed a Village
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During the Civil War, the enslaved Black crew of a Confederate ship was left to sleep on board overnight. Following a…
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View Details Quick ShopHow to Sell Stuff at an Event
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So you've got a business where you make stuff—zines, books, crafts, art, widgets. Whatever it is, you're super…
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Add to CartUnfuck Your Writing: Write Better, Reach Readers, & Share Your Inner World
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Want to be a writer, but the words won't come? Do you have a lot to say but don't know how to write it so people will…
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View Details Quick ShopNeurodivergent Pride #11: Gender
by Joe Biel Author, Kriss De Jong Author, Jo-Jo Sherrow Author and Eliot Daughtry Author
Neurogenders are gender identities that can only be understood in the context of being autistic or otherwise…
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View Details Quick ShopNeurodivergent Pride #2: A User Guide to Treating People Like People
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D Contributor, Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Gee23 Contributor, Kate McNulty Contributor, 4 more
Neurodiversity occupies a similar place in the public consciousness as gay rights did in the 1970s: most people on the…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #041You Can't Trust the Government
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Just ask any Indigenous person. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print on a white background. Reads: "You can't trust…
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