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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.
(We’ve All Got) Baggage: Envisioning an Ideal Community and Engaging It With Our Own Problems and Hangups
by Dawson Barrett Author, Joe Biel Author, Joseph E. Green Author, Cheyenne Winters Author, Dr. Faith G. Harper Author, 6 more
If Microcosm was a person, they'd be in their early twenties, chock full of the messy connotations that this era of…
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How to Boycott: Make Your Voice Heard, Understand History, & Change the World
by Joe Biel Author
From Chick-Fil-A to the Boston Tea Party, Nike to Women's Suffrage in the U.S., United Farm Workers to the Woolworth's…
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Punks Around #4: The Minot, North Dakota Punk Scene 2001-2018
by Joe Biel Author and Alexander Herbert Series Editor
Minot may only be the fourth largest city in North Dakota, but it's a key player in the punk ecosphere. Home to the…
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A People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business From the Ground Up
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So, you want to publish books. Drawing on 24 years of experience operating an independent publishing company, Joe…
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Gin Blossoms: Suicide, Corporatism, Addiction, Creativity, and the Lessons of Doug Hopkins
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"Hey Jealousy," "Found Out About You"... most of the hits from the Gin Blossoms' 1992 breakout album, New Miserable…
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Punks Around #3: The Minot, North Dakota Punk Scene 1989-2000
by Joe Biel Author and Alexander Herbert Series Editor
In 1999 our show in MInot, North Dakota was canceled but the locals said that we could still come hang out. I gave them…
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Perfect Mix Tape Segue #7: Still Alive in Tree House
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During a period of transition, our protagonist takes refuge by living in a literal treehouse. For the first time in his…
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Neurodivergent Pride #3: The Survivors Issue
by Joe Biel Editor, Temple Grandin, Ph.D Contributor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Aaron Poliwoda Contributor and Partly Robot Contributor
The life expectancy of autistic people is 36 years old. The most likely cause of this is suicide. Autistic people are…
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Sticker #409Defend Our Movements
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Ongoing movements are what allows us to create a better world in the future, and a big part of the work is defending…
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Sticker #406Representation Means Safety
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It's so important to see people like us represented in the government, in our workplace, in our schools, in the media…
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Sticker #408Purebread Princess
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We all know that the real princesses are made entirely of bread. Don't we? Are you a purebread princess - one of these…
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Neurodivergent Pride #1: Autistic Pride in a Neurophobic World
by Joe Biel Editor, Temple Grandin, Ph.D Contributor, Ricki Bransen Contributor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Aaron Poliwoda Contributor, Tammy Porter Contributor and Partly Robot Contributor
The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives,…
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Chainring Heart Feminist Fist
by Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author and Cecilia Granata Illustrator
Show your feminist bicycle power with this enamel pin based on Cecilia Granata's re-imagining of the Schwinn bicycle…
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big patch #101Bicycles Allowed Full Lane
by Randy Albright Author and Joe Biel Author
In Oregon and many places across the globe, a bicycle is allowed to occupy a whole lane of traffic (alone or with a…
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Bicycle Culture Rising #2: The Portland Police's Peculiar War Against Bicycling 1993-2007
by Joe Biel Author
It's the revamped second edition of the Expozine Award Winning zine of police documents, now with commentary! Last time…
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A People's Guide to Publishing Workbook
by Joe Biel Author
Plan out your publishing empire, from mission to budgets, with this workbook companion to Joe Biel's A People's Guide to…
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$50 Superpack: Get To Know Joe
by Joe Biel Author and Super Pack! Author
Over the course of 23 years, Microcosm's founder Joe Biel has written eight books across a wide band of subject matter.…
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Patch #244Autistic Lives Matter
by Joe Biel Author
From day-to-day difficulties in socializing, inflexible routines, and sensitivity to noises to the fact that a…
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Bicycle Culture Rising #1: Participatory & Grassroots Bicycle Movements
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A social history and tactics lesson about the participatory and grassroots bicycle movements and their impact and…
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Bikequity: Money, Class, & Bicycling
by Elly Blue Editor, Joe Biel Contributor, Cheyenne Winters Contributor, Gretchin Lair Contributor, Adonia E. Lugo, PhD Contributor and Katura Reynolds Contributor
Bicycling has the radical potential of equalizing our transportation system, creating more equitable opportunities from…
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Sticker #036Minimum Wage: The Latest Gateway Drug
by Joe Biel Author
Minimum wage is so far below a living wage, that it's no wonder people turn to mind-altering substances to distract…
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Patch #238Feminist Chainring Fist
by Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author and Cecilia Granata Author
Sometimes it's hard to sum up the totality of who you are in a single symbol. Peace signs, anarchy symbols, rainbows,…
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Xerography Debt #43
by Davida G. Breier Series Editor, Joe Biel Contributor, Gavin Grant Contributor, AJ Michel Contributor, Anne Thalheimer Contributor and Liz Mason Contributor
With so many zines out there, it can be hard to know which one to read, let alone discover new ones. Xerography #43 has…
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Cat Party #2: Stories & Comics About Our Favorite Cats
by Joe Biel Contributor, Dame Darcy Contributor, Keet Geniza Contributor, Katie Haegele Editor, Mardou Contributor and River Katz Contributor
Five stories and comics by a variety of creators about beloved kitties, in the spirit of Katie Haegele's Cats I've…
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Sticker #395Driving Isn't Vegan
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A bike sticker that tells it how it is: driving hurts the animals. Support animals? Support the environment? Then you…
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Sticker #405The Second Amendment Protects Racism
by Joe Biel Author
The second amendment is racist at its core. Not only has the right to bear arms been upheld to favor white gun ownership…
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$30 Superpack: The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting
by Joe Biel Author, Joseph E. Green Author, Mia Partlow Author, Nate Powell Author, Super Pack! Author and Michael Hoerger Author
Get all the in-print entries in this long-running zine series about always weird, often scary, and sometimes hilarious…
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Doing It Better: Conflict Resolution and Accountability after Abuse in Leftist Communities
by Joe Biel Author
What is our role in holding people accountable in cases of abuse, sexual or otherwise? How do we investigate these…
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Patch #241My Feminism Helps You Too
by Joe Biel Author and Elly Blue Author
So often we are told that feminism means that someone else is losing something or that we are another crazy chick on the…
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How to Thrive / How to Starve
by Joe Biel Author
Recently, an artist friend celebrated a modicum of success after five years of hard work. Many people cheered and…
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