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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

$25 Superpack: Autistic Lives Matter
by Super Pack! Author, Joe Biel Author, Dr. Faith G. Harper Author and Temple Grandin, Ph.D Author
There's a lot of writing about autism out there... and not nearly enough of it is written by and for autistic adults…
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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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Evolution Bicycle
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In this little story, we evolved to ride bikes. Which must be why it feels so damn amazing.
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Put the Fun Between Your Legs
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Get your mind out of the gutter! This beautiful pin, featuring a vintage bike with its message on delicate blue and…
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Common Brain Traps
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Cognitive distortions are ways that our mind convinces us of something that isn't true. These irrational thoughts…
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Stagnating vs Effective Leadership
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Figure out which kind of leader you are (and then, if needed, become the one you want to be)!*Have your poster shipped…
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Scarcity vs Abundance Thinking
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Put things into perspective and make sure you're on the right track. Life's too short not to be the best person…
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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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Autism Acceptance
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Show your autism pride with this multi-colored enamel pin. A rainbow infinity shape reads "Actually Autistic."
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Punk Damage: How The Punk Scene Gave Me Tools and Hope - Once It Stopped Screwing Me Up
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In 2013, when John Roderick’s “Punk Rock is Bullshit: How a Toxic Social Movement Poisoned Our…
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Neurodivergent Pride #6: Masking
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The third installment of this zine series about what it means to be neurodiverse, and what the neurodiverse…
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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…
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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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Neurodivergent Pride #5: Autistic People Interacting with Authority
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D Author, Joe Biel Author, Vanessa Blanchard Author, Kriss De Jong Author, Ricki Bransen Illustrator and Eliot Daughtry Editor
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Bicycle Culture Rising #4: How Kittie Knox Made Bicycling for Everyone
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In the 1890s, bicycling was a cultural activity for the wealthy elite, with a bicycle costing about twenty weeks of a…
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Pin #046Pro Choice
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Because abortions should be safe, legal, available, and shame-free. Smash the stigma with this 1" round…
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(We’ve All Got) Baggage: Envisioning an Ideal Community and Engaging It With Our Own Problems and Hangups
by Dawson Barrett Author, Joe Biel Author, Joseph E. Green Author, Lauren Hage Author, Dr. Faith G. Harper Author, 6 more
If Microcosm was a person, they'd be in their early twenties, chock full of the messy connotations that this…
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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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Punks Around #4: The Minot, North Dakota Punk Scene 2001-2018
by Joe Biel Author and Alexander Herbert Series Editor
Minot may only be the fourth largest city in North Dakota, but it's a key player in the punk…
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People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business From the Ground Up
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So, you want to publish books. Drawing on 24 years of experience operating an independent publishing company,…
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Gin Blossoms: Suicide, Corporatism, Addiction, Creativity, and the Lessons of Doug Hopkins
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"Hey Jealousy," "Found Out About You"... most of the hits from the Gin Blossoms' 1992 breakout…
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Punks Around #3: The Minot, North Dakota Punk Scene 1989-2000
by Joe Biel Author and Alexander Herbert Series Editor
In 1999 our show in MInot, North Dakota was canceled but the locals said that we could still come hang out. I gave them…
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Perfect Mix Tape Segue #7: Still Alive in Tree House
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During a period of transition, our protagonist takes refuge by living in a literal treehouse. For the first time in his…
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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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Sticker #406Representation Means Safety
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It's so important to see people like us represented in the government, in our workplace, in our schools, in the…
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Sticker #408Purebread Princess
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We all know that the real princesses are made entirely of bread. Don't we? Are you a purebread princess - one of…
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Sticker #409Defend Our Movements
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Ongoing movements are what allows us to create a better world in the future, and a big part of the work…
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Neurodivergent Pride #1: Autistic Pride in a Neurophobic World
by Joe Biel Editor, Temple Grandin, Ph.D Contributor, Ricki Bransen Contributor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Aaron Poliwoda Contributor, Tammy Porter Contributor and Partly Robot Contributor
The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives,…
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Chainring Heart Feminist Fist
by Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author and Cecilia Granata Illustrator
Show your feminist bicycle power with this enamel pin based on Cecilia Granata's re-imagining of the Schwinn bicycle…
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