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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.
How to Be Accountable: Take Responsibility to Change Your Behavior, Boundaries, and Relationships
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
Accountability means accepting responsibility for your actions and repairing any harm you have done. This book can be…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Autism Relationships Handbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
Ever since Joe came out as autistic, people have been sharing their stories and asking questions. The most common…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #149Put The Fun Between Your Legs (square)
by Joe Biel Author
Get your mind out of the gutter! Or don't. That's cool too. But however you interpret this sticker, bicycling is the…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #087Evolution Bicycle
by Joe Biel Author
When you ride a bike, it's easy to feel like you've got it all figured out. Keep your personal and social evolution in…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Autism Relationships Workbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
Every autistic person is capable and worthy of having happy, healthy, fulfilling friendships and relationships. This…
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View Details Quick ShopPeople's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business From the Ground Up
by Joe Biel Author
So, you want to publish books. Drawing on 24 years of experience operating an independent publishing company, Joe…
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View Details Quick ShopEvolution Racer T-shirt
by Joe Biel Author
Where did the bicyclist come from? Only Darwin would know. And he'd probably ride up on his own bike. After all it makes…
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View Details Quick ShopMake 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 Microcosm’s…
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View Details Quick ShopThe CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting: Dark Deeds & Derring-Do from 1950 to Today
by Joe Biel Author with Gena Mason and Abner Smith, Keith Rosson Contributor with Scott Satterwhite
These five case studies offer a chilling glimpse into the negligence, greed, murder, and at times comical…
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View Details Quick ShopUnfuck Your Writing: Write Better, Reach Readers, & Share Your Inner World
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
Want to be a writer, but the words won't come? Do you have a lot to say but don't know how to write it so people will…
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View Details Quick ShopHow to Be Accountable Workbook: Take Responsibility to Change Your Behavior, Boundaries, & Relationships
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
Have you made choices you regret, grown away from your values, damaged your relationships, or hurt yourself and…
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View Details Quick ShopPoster Comic / Catalog
by Joe Biel Author and Gerta Oparaku Egy Illustrator
Every year lately we've been making a new catalog in the format of a poster! On the front, there's a comic (or some…
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Add to CartThe Autism Partner Handbook: How to Love an Autistic Person
by Joe Biel Author, Dr. Faith G. Harper Author and Elly Blue Author
So, your partner is autistic. Or you suspect they might be. And you're wondering, "What does this mean for my…
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View Details Quick ShopPut the Fun Between Your Legs
by Joe Biel Author
Do you love bicycling so much that you want to wear it on a t-shirt? Let's celebrate fun and raciness. Please? Women's…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Autism FAQ: Everything You Wanted to Know About Diagnosis & Autistic Life
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
What's it like to be autistic? As many as one in forty-five people live that reality every day, but our culture remains…
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View Details Quick ShopBikequity: Money, Class, & Bicycling
by Elly Blue Editor, Joe Biel Contributor, Cheyenne Winters Contributor, Gretchin Lair Contributor, Adonia E. Lugo, PhD Contributor and Katura Reynolds Contributor
Bicycling has the radical potential of equalizing our transportation system, creating more equitable opportunities from…
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View Details Quick ShopCycletherapy: Grief and Healing on Two Wheels
by Anika Ledlow Editor, Elly Blue Series Editor, Joe Biel Contributor, Anna Brones Contributor, Cheyenne Winters Contributor, Gretchin Lair Contributor and Amy Subach Contributor
Can you pedal your way through everything life throws at you? Taking on the bicycle as a means of making sense of life…
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View Details Quick ShopUnfuck Your Business: Using Math and Brain Science to Run a Successful Business
by Joe Biel Author and Dr. Faith G. Harper Author
How do you start and run a successful business, despite the odds? This unique guide to entrepreneurship teaches you…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #149b: Put the Fun Between Your Legs (long)
by Joe Biel Author
Get your mind out of the gutter! Where else would you put your bike? (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black or pink print on a…
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View Details Quick ShopBicycle Culture Rising #3: A History of Bicycle Activism in Portland, OR
by Joe Biel Author
In this, the third issue of Joe Biel's award-winning, ongoing look at the Critical Mass movement, we are given a…
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View Details Quick ShopSticker #159Chainring Heart
by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Renier Author and alex wrekk Author
Microcosm's iconic chainring heart, now in sticker form! Show your bike love to the world! (Sturdy vinyl sticker with…
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View Details Quick ShopBicycle Culture Rising #4: How Kittie Knox Made Bicycling for Everyone
by Joe Biel Author
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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View Details Quick ShopHow to Ride Slow: Bicycling in the age of whatever topic is trending on social media this minute
by Joe Biel Author
Bicycling has many obvious health benefits, but the least obvious one is the mindful act of bicycling. Rather than…
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View Details Quick Shop$100 & a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest
by Joe Biel Author, Nickey Robo Author and Rev Phil Sano Author
A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of…
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View Details Quick ShopChange Your Life then the World - embroidered patch
by Joe Biel Illustrator
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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Add to CartChainring Heart
by Joe Biel Author and Aaron Renier Author
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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View Details Quick ShopThe Enduring Legacy of Portland's Black Panthers: The Roots of Free Healthcare, Free Breakfast, and Neighborhood Control in Oregon
by Joe Biel Author and Aaron Dixon Foreword
In the 1960s through 1980s, the Black Panther Party rose up throughout the United States, envisioning a world…
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View Details Quick Shop13 Years of Good Luck: The Microcosm Publishing Sampler
by Julia Alekseyeva Contributor, Lee Baillie Contributor, Moe Bowstern Contributor, Alexander Barrett Contributor, Nate Beaty Contributor, 32 more
To celebrate our thirteenth anniversary of publishing books and zines about self-empowerment, we put together this…
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View Details Quick ShopPatch #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 and…
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Add to CartSticker #001Critical Mass
by Joe Biel Author
Critical Mass is an event typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists…
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