Matt Joseph Diaz

I promise you, people living with depression are acutely aware that things probably aren’t as bad as they could be.

This week: Find what fuels you, and don't beat yourself up if what's fueling you right now is "surviving."

Whether it’s your ethnicity, your religion, your sexuality, you do not deserve to be loved in spite of who you are — you deserve to be loved for who you are. Those things are a part of you, and they shouldn’t be swept under the rug or pushed to the side so someone can pick and choose the things they like about you.

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

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

You are not where you're from, and you are not your environment.

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From a young age, people (especially women) are constantly taught that we’re in competition with one another. Whether it’s our grades, our social status, our economic status, or those creepy beauty pageants for 6 year olds, we’re immediately thrust into a world where we’re taught to view everyone as adversarial to a certain degree.

Dear anti-feminist men, 

I’m writing to you because I want to have a discussion.

This week, we're spotlighting mental health in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. Tune in to today's #MondayMotivation as Matt discusses his own diagnosis, and how to be kind to yourself even when a new diagnosis feels scary and hard.