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 and co-founder of the
Portland Zine Symposium. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine,
Publishers Weekly, Art of Autism, Utne Reader, Oregonian, Broken
Pencil, Punk Planet, 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. The Journal of Adolescent
& Adult Literacy described Biel as "not trained in pedagogy." Biel
lives in Portland, Oregon. Find out more at joebiel.net
Dr. Faith G. Harper, LPC-S, ACS, ACN is a bad-ass, funny
lady with a PhD. She's a licensed professional counselor, board
supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist
with a private practice and consulting business in San Antonio, TX.
She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter, and is
proud to be a woman of color and uppity intersectional feminist.
She is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the book
Unf*ck Your Brain and many other popular zines and books on
subjects such as anxiety, depression, boundaries and grief. She has
been known to publish in academic spaces as well, most recently
with a chapter in the book Understanding Indigenous Perspectives.
She is available as a public speaker and for corporate and clinical
trainings.
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