Matt Joseph Diaz

Welcome to Monday Motivation with Matt Joseph Diaz! Every Monday (obviously), I'll be serving up some motivation to get you through the week.

You aren’t half of something waiting to be made whole — you’re a complete human being with your own important thoughts and ideas, looking for someone to add to your life. You're neither incomplete nor missing out on anything just because you’re single.

Of course, summertime also seems to come hand-in-hand with partial nudity. Wearing next to nothing out in public is just as important a part of summer as barbecues and trips to the beach. That is, unless you’re anything outside the socially acceptable body types. Then it suddenly becomes an opportunity for people to dole out their own specific kind of “fashion justice.”

This Monday, Matt talks about female comic characters. Batman? How about BatNOTSOMUCHMAN.

This is literally the cutest, happiest thing you will see all day.

Dear 16-Year-Old, 500 Pound Matt,

This week on Mondays With Matt: Wearing a crop-top. And I have a NEW BELLYBUTTON.

Success is an uphill climb, but it’s rarely a directly uphill climb. There are cliffsides and plateaus, there are points where you have to adapt and change in order to make things work. These are not steps backwards, nor are they indicative of your failure—they’re simply a byproduct of life. More often than not, this ability to work with the circumstances in order to get by will take you farther than certain “skills” ever could.

"There is always someone who loves you. There is always someone who cares."

For a long time, passing privilege made me feel like I didn’t deserve to call myself latino.