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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.


Sticker #077Think Freedom Sucks? Hate the Poor? Vote Republican
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Sometimes stereotypes are true... and this one, although a bit snarky, is definitely one of the true ones. Why is it…
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Sticker #245Gentrification in Progress
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Is your neighborhood being over-developed by yuppie shits for massive profit? Maybe this satirical sticker can help you…
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Sticker #178First Amendment
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A good little reminder to have with you at all times. Stick it somewhere, educate others. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with…
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Sticker #426every action is an act of love or a call for it
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Sticker #311Evolution Cruiser Bicycle
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As we ride more modern and practical citybikes, sometimes it's important to let your hair flow, put on your skirtguard,…
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Sticker #429maybe honking will help
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A helpful suggestion to place on your bicycle rack, motorcycle side, car bumper, or walking cane. Because who knows,…
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Sticker #086If Money Were No Object, What Would You Do With Your Life?
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The root of all evil is deep and suffocating. If we lived in a world without money, we would be freer to spend our days…
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Sticker #185Read Zines, Change the World
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Read, reflect, act thoughtfully, repeat. Throw some writing and publishing your own zines into the mix and you've got a…
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Sticker #088In 1492 Indigenous people discovered Christopher Columbus lost at sea
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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 yourself and…
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Sticker #159Chainring Heart
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Microcosm's iconic chainring heart, now in sticker form! Show your bike love to the world! (Sturdy vinyl sticker with…
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Sticker #105Bombing for Peace is Like Fucking for Virginity
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How could anybody ever be fooled into believing that you could save anybody with bombs? This one makes the absurdity of…
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Sticker #410Choosing Comfort Over Difficult Conversation Is the Epitome of Privilege
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It's a privilege to avoid those tricky conversations at the dinner table. It may make things more comfortable for you,…
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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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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 #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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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 #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 #242Black Lives Matter
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For all that our media tries to make other countries scary--"Dangerous Mexico!" "Scary Iran!" "Deadly Columbia!"--forty…
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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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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 #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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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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