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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. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine, Publishers Weekly, 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 on the Spectrum, Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior, Make a Zine, The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting, Proud to be Retarded, Bicycle Culture Rising, and 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.


Unfuck Your Business: Using Math and Brain Science to Run a Successful Business
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
How do you start and run a successful business, despite the odds? This unique guide to entrepreneurship teaches you…
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$25-40-60 Superpack: Owning Our Damage Warehouse Sale! (Published Books)
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The Autism FAQ: Everything You Wanted to Know About Diagnosis & Autistic Life
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What's it like to be autistic? As many as one in forty-five people live that reality every day, but our culture…
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Is This a Problem?
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$35 Superpack: Write Your Book!
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Neurodivergent Pride #12: Burnout (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)
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Burnout is a topic on everyone's mind since the pandemonium hit in March 2020. But what about autistic burnout?…
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The Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon
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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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Autism Acceptance
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How to Make a Decision
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It's not always easy to make the right choice. It's not always easy to know what your choices are! But with this…
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What Should I Do Next?
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Everybody gets bogged down in tasks from time to time and feels uncertain about how to start their long list of to-dos.…
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Sticker #231start as you want to continue
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The beginning contains everything that follows after it. That's why the way you start something shapes the way it…
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How to Recognize What You Need
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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…
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Scarcity v Abundance
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Is This a Problem?
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Read Zines, Change the World
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Zines are a powerful tool for changing minds and sharing information. Get other people stoked about the power of zines…
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How You Relate to Others
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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…
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$25 Superpack: Your Neurodiverse Friend
by Super Pack! Author and Joe Biel Series Editor
Get the first five issues of the compilation zine Your Neurodiverse Friend, bringing together perspectives and personal…
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$50 Superpack: Neurodivergent Pride - What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World!
by Super Pack! Author and Joe Biel Series Editor
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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Do 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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Autism Causes Vaccines: Stories of Neurodiverse Inventors and Discoveries
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Just about every breakthrough discovery and some of the most innovative inventors in the history of the world have…
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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…
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A People's Guide to Business: Nine Rules for Success
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Start and grow your successful business your wayUnlike any other small business guide out there, A People's…
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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…
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How You Relate To Others
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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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Boyfriend 411: Your Guide to Emotions, Communication, and Decoding Men
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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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Bicycle Culture Rising #3: A History of Bicycle Activism in Portland, OR
by Joe Biel Author
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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The 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…
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Understanding Eugenics: The U.S. and Nazi Plans to Shape the Gene Pool & Control the Population
by Joe Biel Author
The "science" of eugenics—by which the genetic makeup of a population is shaped by controlling…
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Robert Smalls: The Slave 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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