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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.
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
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
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
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D Author, Joe Biel Author, Margaret-Michael Dubois 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
by Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Niko Boskovic Contributor, Margaret-Michael Dubois 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
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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
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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
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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
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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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One Fewer Truck
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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
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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
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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 #002Evolution
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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 #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 #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs (shirt style)
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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 #083Who Would Jesus Bomb?
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Oh the hypocrisy of the theological underpinnings of the military industrial complex. We've read the New Testament and…
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Patch #088Read Zines, Change the World
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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 #092Resist Gossip
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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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Patch #102Fix Shit Up
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Are you tired of fucking shit up? Don’t worry, we all make mistakes but they are all fixable! Why not start with your…
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Patch #110Throw Away Corvette
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Put the automobile where it belongs: in the trashcan. Society can't afford to subsidize them. The lobbies are too…
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Patch #131Towards Car Free Cities
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Thanks to your car-free diet, you help the ecosystem, cut down on oil waste, and have a better view of the world. This…
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Patch #194Punk Rock Saved My Life
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Did punk rock help get you through the hardest parts of your life? Be proud of that, it saved my life too. Tell the…
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Patch #197Put The Fun Between Your Legs (long)
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Common like seriously, we're talking about bicycling. Get your mind out of the gutter and out into the streets. It’s…
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Patch #199There's A Special Place In Hell For Bike Thieves
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Sure someone might be a better person for riding a bike rather than a car, but that doesn’t excuse karma! Say…
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Patch #207Free Parking
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Wait a minute? You’re telling me that it's free ANY time? I may complain about getting rained on from time to…
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Patch #213Save $8,000 and smile more
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Aside from losing 4,000 or so pounds on your driveway and freeing up the burden of private property imposed on the…
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Patch #214Ask Me About Freeway Removal
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There have been murmurs that when Eisenhower, the designer of the interstate highway system, learned that freeways had…
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Patch #230Live Free or Drive
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New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state sits in a nice complement to Oregon, the unofficial "Live Free or Drive"…
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Patch #231One Less/Fewer Truck
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Gotta get the kids to school, collect groceries back from the store, and lumber to the job site? Look no more! Get your…
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