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Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock to sell millions of books. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly's #1 fastest-growing publisher of 2022 and #3 in 2023/2024, and WorkingLit, the software responsible for Microcosm's aforementioned success—now available for other publishers. Biel has been featured in Time, Esquire, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll, as well as NPR and PBS. Biel is the author of A People's Guide to Publishing, Autism Relationships Handbook, Unfuck Your Business, Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers, 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 series. Biel lives in Portland, OR.


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Sticker #619Dumpster Fires are the purifying light of a better world being born
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Readers have choices! For example, you chose to read this description. And should be able to choose whatever you want to…
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Sticker #621Fiction: Historical Lies, Emotional Truths
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They say the victors are usually the ones who write history. That's led to centuries of white supremacy, misogyny, and…
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Sticker #623You can normalize trash picking
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Sticker #624do cops storming colleges realize they will only create more folk music?
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Music has been a central part of protest for a long, long time. And at this rate, we're going to have inspiration for a…
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Sticker #641life is a group project
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Life is a group project. So are you going to be the one that slides by letting others do all the work? Or are you going…
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Sticker #645people mistake me for an adult, due to my age
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Age is just a number, baby. It's also apparently in indicator that you're ready for things like "responsibility" and…
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Sticker #647I read zines
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It's the Year of Zines, baby! They're small but mighty vessels for all your passionate ideas and thoughts. We got our…
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Sticker #649be the dumpster fire you want to see
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Sometimes you've just gotta burn it all down so you can build it back up again. As an added plus, dumpster fires are a…
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Sticker #650Who do we mean, when we say "we?"
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We. A pronoun. Used to mean a collective or group including yourself, or as a first person pronoun if you're fancy. But…
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Sticker #651the only straight thing about me is my priorities. wait, nevermind.
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Sticker #652banned books = best books
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Sticker #653you can't ban the underground
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The underground is bigger than the mainstream. Always there, moving against the current, making noise, making music,…
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Sticker #655i make zines
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Superpack: Protest Power Counter Display
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The "Sweetheart" chainring is a classic chainring set that inspired the design for the Chainring Heart logo. It was on…
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Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers
by Elly Blue Series Editor, Charlie Jane Anders Contributor, M. Darusha Wehm Contributor, Tucker Lieberman Contributor, Ether Nepenthes Contributor, 3 more
2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist Take a ride with us as we explore a future where trans and nonbinary people are…
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Understanding 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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Unfuck Your Business Deck
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Unfuck Your Business: Using Math and Brain Science to Run a Successful Business
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How do you start and run a successful business, despite the odds? This unique guide to entrepreneurship teaches you…
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Unfuck Your Business Workbook: Using Math and Brain Science to Run a Successful Business
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Do you want to start a business? Or does your existing business feel stuck? Either way, this no-fluff workbook will walk…
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Unfuck Your Nonprofit: Change the World Without Losing Your Mind or Values
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Idealists, gather round! How do you pursue your passionate cause to the fullest while still meeting your own needs? How…
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Unfuck 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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Utopian Witch
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A utopian witch believes in a better, more magical, and more solarpunk future. Put this enamel pin on your jacket, vest,…
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(We’ve All Got) Baggage: Envisioning an Ideal Community and Engaging It With Our Own Problems and Hangups
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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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