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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, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, PBS, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. Biel is the author of 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, Ore. Find out more at joebiel.net

Evolution Cargo T-shirt
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Throughout science there has been minor discrepancies in the way that different species evolve. Some become sleek racers…
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Evolution Cruiser T-Shirt
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For nearly as long as the original evolution t-shirt has been designed, people have been asking for a variant. Gender…
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Evolution Racer T-shirt
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Where did the bicyclist come from? Only Darwin would know. And he'd probably ride up on his own bike. After all it…
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Fair & Balanced T-Shirt
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In this day and age of overwhelming and misleading media headlines, we present the first "fair" and…
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Gin Blossoms: Suicide, Corporatism, Addiction, Creativity, and the Lessons of Doug Hopkins
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Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Autism
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The history of Microcosm Publishing, from its origins as a record label and zine distro in Joe Biel's bedroom closet…
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How to Be Accountable Workbook: Take Responsibility to Change Your Behavior, Boundaries, & Relationships
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Have you made choices you regret, grown away from your values, damaged your relationships, or hurt…
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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…
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How to be Funny: The Art and Science of Making Light of Reality Through Humor
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Autistic people have a reputation for being extreme literalists; we're known better for being the butt of jokes than…
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How to Boycott: Make Your Voice Heard, Understand History, & Change the World
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From Chick-Fil-A to the Boston Tea Party, Nike to Women's Suffrage in the U.S., United Farm Workers to the…
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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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How to Make a Decision (horizontal)
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Life is full of major decisions and often we get lost and mired in the slog of figuring out what's best for us, or…
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How to Make a Decision (vertical)
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Life is full of major decisions and often we get lost and mired in the slog of figuring out what's best for us, or…
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How to Quit Sugar
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Cookies. Cakes. Candies. Sodas. Why are sugary treats SOOO good, yet so bad for your health?
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How to Recognize What You Need
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Having trouble figuring out what you need? Self-care is not a binary. Often—especially if you aren't practiced…
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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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How to Ride Slow: Bicycling in the age of whatever topic is trending on social media this minute
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Bicycling has many obvious health benefits, but the least obvious one is the mindful act of bicycling. Rather than…
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How to Sell Stuff at an Event
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So you've got a business where you make stuff—zines, books, crafts, art, widgets. Whatever it is, you're…
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How to Thrive / How to Starve
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Recently, an artist friend celebrated a modicum of success after five years of hard work. Many people cheered and…
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How to Thrive / Starve & How to Make a Decision postcard
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Recently, an artist friend celebrated a modicum of success after five years of hard work. Many people cheered and…
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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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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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If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk: D. un I. t Y.
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Over the last fifteen years, Plan-it X Records helped foster a huge cultural revolution, uniting geographically divided…
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Is This a Problem?
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Ever get overwhelmed by a situation? Not sure how to resolve it, or even evaluate it? This helpful magnet set with a…
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Kittie Knox Remembered
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Katherine “Kittie” T Knox (1874-1900) challenged perceptions of race and gender in the national spotlight…
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