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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.

Make a Zine!: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution

Make 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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Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior

Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior

by Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author and Meggyn Pomerleau Illustrator

You've heard of mansplaining, but what about manstitutions? From manologues to manversations, mantrums to manger, the…

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Mutual Aid, Not Mutual Funds

Mutual Aid, Not Mutual Funds

by Joe Biel Author

Throw each other a life preserver sometimes, because we're all in this together.Put this magnet on your fridge, your…

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Neurodivergent Pride #1: Autistic Pride in a Neurophobic World

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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Neurodivergent Pride #10: Interactions with Police

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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Neurodivergent Pride #11: Gender

Neurodivergent Pride #11: Gender

by Joe Biel Author, Kriss De Jong 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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Neurodivergent Pride #12: Burnout (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)

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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Neurodivergent Pride #13: Animal Companions (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)

Neurodivergent Pride #13: Animal Companions (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)

by Joe Biel Author, Casie Dodd Author, Partly Robot Author and Kari Melton Author

Companion animals provide companionship, love, a sense of purpose, and support for the humans they live with, which can…

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Neurodivergent Pride #14: Mutual Aid (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)

Neurodivergent Pride #14: Mutual Aid (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)

by Joe Biel Author, Andrew Coltrin Author, Eliot Daughtry Illustrator and Theresa Pizza Author

Mutual aid has received more attention as a radical tactic lately, especially in the wake of the uprisings and protest…

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Neurodivergent Pride #2: A User Guide to Treating People Like People

Neurodivergent 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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Neurodivergent Pride #3: The Survivors Issue

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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Neurodivergent Pride #4: Being Taken Advantage Of

Neurodivergent Pride #4: Being Taken Advantage Of

by Joe Biel Editor, Temple Grandin, Ph.D Contributor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Kriss De Jong Contributor, Partly Robot Contributor, Laura Stanfill Contributor and Emily Velasquez Contributor

The first time that I met my favorite autistic mentee, she walked right up to me, declaring “You don’t look like…

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Neurodivergent Pride #5: Autistic People Interacting with Authority

Neurodivergent Pride #5: Autistic People Interacting with Authority

by Temple Grandin, Ph.D Author, Joe Biel Author, Vanessa Blanchard Author, Kriss De Jong Author, Ricki Bransen Illustrator and Eliot Daughtry Editor

The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives,…

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Neurodivergent Pride #6: Masking

Neurodivergent Pride #6: Masking

by Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Niko Boskovic Contributor, Vanessa Blanchard Contributor and fly Illustrator

The third installment of this zine series about what it means to be neurodiverse, and what the neurodiverse experience…

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Neurodivergent Pride #7: Anxiety

Neurodivergent Pride #7: Anxiety

by Joe Biel Author

The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives,…

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Neurodivergent Pride #8: Relationships

Neurodivergent Pride #8: Relationships

by Joe Biel Author

The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives,…

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Neurodivergent Pride #9: Comorbidities

Neurodivergent Pride #9: Comorbidities

by Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Author and Kriss De Jong Author

For neurodiverse folks, it's a rare thing to have only one diagnosis (or misdiagnosis) at a time—and if we do, it…

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No Self Injury for One Year

No Self Injury for One Year

by Joe Biel Author

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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One Fewer Truck

One Fewer Truck

by Joe Biel Author

What's that? You have to take the kids to school, the dog to the park, and pickup the groceries on the way home? You…

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One Fewer Truck Magnet

One Fewer Truck Magnet

by Joe Biel Author

Do you lack a truck, but own a bicycle? Would you like others to adopt a sans-truck lifestyle? Make your agenda clear as…

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One Less Truck t-shirt

One Less Truck t-shirt

by Joe Biel Author

What's that? You have to take the kids to school, the dog to the park, and pickup the groceries on the way home? You…

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Patch #002: Evolution

Patch #002Evolution

by Joe Biel Author

By now, other than than Ann Coulter, we've mostly agreed that humans evolved from apes. But the science is still out and…

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Patch #058: Chainring Heart

Patch #058Chainring Heart

by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Renier Author and alex wrekk Author

A canvas patch bearing the ever-popular Microcosm logo! Our bicycle chainring heart speaks the truth. Originally…

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Patch #078: Put the Fun Between Your Legs (shirt style)

Patch #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs (shirt style)

by Joe Biel Author

It's true! The bicycle is so much fun! Since when have you really been able to enjoy the sights around you when in a…

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Patch #083: Who Would Jesus Bomb?

Patch #083Who Would Jesus Bomb?

by Joe Biel Author

Oh the hypocrisy of the theological underpinnings of the military industrial complex. We've read the New Testament and…

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Patch #088: Read Zines, Change the World

Patch #088Read Zines, Change the World

by Joe Biel Author

Even if you didn't grow up in the 90s, tapping your heart out on an old typewriter while cutting and pasting the lines…

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Patch #092: Resist Gossip

Patch #092Resist Gossip

by Joe Biel Author

Okay. We know it is fun and a little addictive. But it also hurts feelings, people's confidence, and reputations. It's…

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