| Bicycle Culture Rising #4: How Kittie Knox Made Bicycling for Everyone Contributor(s): Biel, Joe (Author) |
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ISBN: 1621066991 ISBN-13: 9781621066996 Publisher: Microcosm Publishing OUR PRICE: $4.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Transportation | Bicycles |
| Series: Bicycle Revolution |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.1" W x 6.9" (0.15 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kittie Knox, a teenage Black girl in the 1890s, began making headlines in her hometown of Boston. In this excellent, deep-research piece full of cultural analysis, you can see the way how Knox's actions continue to affect cycling today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Biel, Joe: - Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. He is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing and co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Art of Autism, Utne Reader, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. He 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. He 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." He lives in Portland, Ore and his work can be found at joebiel.net |