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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.
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Patch #236Library Gearz
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Ever notice how social change happens? 1) People get educated... say, at the library or through the little phones we…
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big patch #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs
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What's more fun than riding a bike? Perhaps riding two bikes on a date? Scratch that, let’s bring a whole club of…
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Patch #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs (shirt style)
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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 #243Legalize Blackness
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How hypocritical that our media tries to make other countries seem scary. And yet, forty percent of Americans don't even…
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Patch #242Black Lives Matter
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The Autism Relationships Workbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love
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Every autistic person is capable and worthy of having happy, healthy, fulfilling friendships and relationships. This…
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Neurodivergent Pride #4: Being Taken Advantage Of
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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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Chainring Heart
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The image that started it all. The chainring heart is Microcosm's logo and still a fitting symbol of all we do.…
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Autism & The Re:Spectrum of Human Emotions/Perfect Mix Tape Segue #6: Autism & Intellectually Understanding Empathy
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Recommended for anyone who is or knows someone on the autism spectrum (or suspects they might!), this zine looks at the…
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The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #10: What Happened to the Black Panther Party?
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You may have heard of the Black Panther Party, but what do we really know? Here's introduction to the time shit hit…
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Sticker #052Hate Driving in Traffic?
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People are always complaining about traffic, when they are literally sitting in their cars and being part of the traffic…
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Sticker #146Who Would Jesus Bomb?
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WWJB doesn't quite roll of the tongue like WWJD.
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Sticker #360Being Apolitical is a Privilege
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To have no political opinion simply means that you're comfortable with the status quo, and that the status quo doesn't…
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Sticker #470Demisexual Pride
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Let the world know you are demisexual and proud with this sticker! (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black print on a white…
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Sticker #270No One Is Free When Others Are Oppressed
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In a society based on the oppression of people, nobody can ever be truly free. We are all trapped in a tricky web of…
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The Autism Relationships Handbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love
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Ever since Joe came out as autistic, people have been sharing their stories and asking questions. The most common…
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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 #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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Sticker #453Be interested instead of trying to be interesting
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Curiosity is the best superpower. It opens doors, creates conversations, and means you'll never, ever be bored (or…
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How to Be Accountable: Take Responsibility to Change Your Behavior, Boundaries, and Relationships
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Accountability means accepting responsibility for your actions and repairing any harm you have done. This book can be…
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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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Do Not Pet: How Activists Brought Disability Rights to the U.S.
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Service dogs, wheelchair-accessible buildings, and protection against being fired due to a disability—these basic…
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Perfect Mix Tape Segue #4: Going On Tour
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Three years after the fact Joe busts out a zine tour based zine about "Cocoon: The Road Trip" from 2004. A collection of…
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Do Not Pet: A Service Dog's Graphic Tail
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Throughout human history, dogs have performed service tasks for us. Some of the earliest documented cases occurred…
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Superpack: Protest Power Counter Display
by Super Pack! Author, Adonia E. Lugo, PhD Author, Dan Méndez Moore Author, Joe Biel Author, Michael Hoerger Author, 4 more
Fuel the revolution with these books and zines that empower readers to understand key social issues and act on them.…
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Change Your Life then the World - embroidered patch
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Woa calm down hot stuff! We get that you want to change the world, but why not try on changing your life first…
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$50 Superpack: Stuck at Home
by Super Pack! Author, Joe Biel Author, Dave Roche Author, Emily June Street Author, Ben Snakepit Author, Robert Wildwood Author and Bill Brown Author
For everyone stuck at home right now looking for new inputs, this bundle of books is especially put together to absorb…
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Revolution Between the Lines Typewriter
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What you write matters. What you read matters. Understanding the subtext and context of what you write and read matters…
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Pin #053Why Do You Think They Call It Programming?
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The original design for this button pictured a boxy television. We figured we'd update it with a new twist for modern…
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