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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.
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 Microcosm’s…
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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, the…
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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? It's a…
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Neurodivergent Pride #13: Animal Companions (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)
by Joe Biel Author, Casie Dodd Author, Partly Robot Author and Kari Melton Author
Companion animals provide companionship, love, a sense of purpose, and support for the humans they live with, which can…
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Add to CartNeurodivergent Pride #14: Mutual Aid (What Autistic Minds Can Teach Each Other and the World)
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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 like…
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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 experience…
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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 if we do, it…
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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 you! Get…
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Old School T-Shirt
by Joe Biel Author
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 and…
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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 in a…
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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 Testament and…
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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 lines…
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Patch #092Resist Gossip
by Joe Biel Author
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 #102Fix Shit Up
by Joe Biel Author
Are you tired of fucking shit up? Don’t worry, we all make mistakes but they are all fixable! Why not start with your…
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