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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
Live Free or Drive (train) Magnet
by Joe Biel Author
Ah, how I yearn for the days of the trolley taking us about. We could load up with bicycles and not worry about the…
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Live Free or Drive (words) Magnet
by Joe Biel Author
Let's skip right to the point: driving is a hellish task, what with the damage to the environment, the expense, and…
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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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Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior
by Joe Biel Author, Elly Blue Author and Meggyn Pomerleau Illustrator
You've heard of mansplaining, but what about manstitutions? From manologues to manversations, mantrums to manger,…
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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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Neurodivergent Pride #11: Gender
by Joe Biel Author, Kriss De Jong Author, Jo-Jo Sherrow Author and Eliot Daughtry Author
Neurogenders are gender identities that can only be understood in the context of being autistic or otherwise…
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Neurodivergent Pride #12: Burnout (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)
by Joe Biel Editor, Partly Robot Contributor and Amelia Nagoski Contributor
Burnout is a topic on everyone's mind since the pandemonium hit in March 2020. But what about autistic burnout?…
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Neurodivergent Pride #14: Mutual Aid (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)
by Joe Biel Author and Eliot Daughtry Author
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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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Neurodivergent Pride #2: A User Guide to Treating People Like People
by Temple Grandin, Ph.D Contributor, Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Gee23 Contributor, Kate McNulty Contributor, 4 more
Neurodiversity occupies a similar place in the public consciousness as gay rights did in the 1970s: most people on the…
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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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Neurodivergent Pride #4: Being Taken Advantage Of
by Joe Biel Editor, Temple Grandin, Ph.D Contributor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Kriss De Jong Contributor, Partly Robot Contributor, Laura Stanfill Contributor and Emily Velasquez Contributor
The first time that I met my favorite autistic mentee, she walked right up to me, declaring “You don’t look…
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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
The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives,…
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Neurodivergent Pride #6: Masking
by Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Contributor, Niko Boskovic Contributor, Vanessa Blanchard Contributor and fly Illustrator
The third installment of this zine series about what it means to be neurodiverse, and what the neurodiverse…
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Neurodivergent Pride #7: Anxiety
by Joe Biel Author
The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives,…
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Neurodivergent Pride #8: Relationships
by Joe Biel Author
The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives,…
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Neurodivergent Pride #9: Comorbidities
by Joe Biel Editor, Eliot Daughtry Author and Kriss De Jong Author
For neurodiverse folks, it's a rare thing to have only one diagnosis (or misdiagnosis) at a time—and…
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No Self Injury for One Year
by Joe Biel Author
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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Old School T-Shirt
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Remember the old days of carelessly riding your penny farthing around the playground after school and then taking it out…
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One Fewer Truck
by Joe Biel Author
What's that? You have to take the kids to school, the dog to the park, and pickup the groceries on the way home? You…
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One Fewer Truck Magnet
by Joe Biel Author
Do you lack a truck, but own a bicycle? Would you like others to adopt a sans-truck lifestyle? Make your agenda clear as…
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One Less Truck t-shirt
by Joe Biel Author
What's that? You have to take the kids to school, the dog to the park, and pickup the groceries on the way home? You…
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Patch #002Evolution
by Joe Biel Author
By now, other than than Ann Coulter, we've mostly agreed that humans evolved from apes. But the science is still out…
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Patch #058Chainring Heart
by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Renier Author and alex wrekk Author
A canvas patch bearing the ever-popular Microcosm logo! Our bicycle chainring heart speaks the truth. Originally…
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Patch #078Put the Fun Between Your Legs (shirt style)
by Joe Biel Author
It's true! The bicycle is so much fun! Since when have you really been able to enjoy the sights around you when…
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Patch #083Who Would Jesus Bomb?
by Joe Biel Author
Oh the hypocrisy of the theological underpinnings of the military industrial complex. We've read the New…
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Patch #088Read Zines, Change the World
by Joe Biel Author
Even if you didn't grow up in the 90s, tapping your heart out on an old typewriter while cutting and pasting the…
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