July Meetup Recap | Education Vacation: A Lesson Plan for Healing
The July Meetup took the form of a “virtual healing 101” classroom, as our community from across the globe gathered on Zoom to discuss the education system and share scho...
Marching to the Beat of Identity: From Protests to Parades
The elements are permanent in our cultural psyche. We witness crowds waving and cheering pressed against metal stanchions, marching bands echoing the streets with a catchy tun...
June Meetup Recap: Parade Your Pride
The June Meetup became a virtual parade as our community gathered in our most celebrated garb and brought to the space all that makes us proud. While amid a very active Pride ...
Five Queer BIPOC Grand Marshals To Celebrate During Pride Month
Countless queer BIPOC folks have achieved the most defining moments of LGBTQIA+ history. From activists who led the protests following the 1969 police raid of the Stonewall In...
Second Generational Existential Crisis: The Young Asian American Experience
The journey of being born into one very traditional culture with the unspoken expectations to fit into another can feel like an overextending straddle. For many Asian American...
The Mental Health of Aging Asian Americans: How We Can Help
... elderly Asian Americans only use mental health services nearly two-thirds less than the white population, partly due to filial piety–traditional reliance on family and ...
May Meetup Recap
The May Meetup was a momentous wave of emotion for our community as we gave space to tell stories of mixed identities and their effect on mental health. But before The Mixed S...
Confused: Being Okay With Not Being Sure
There is a lovely scene from the Before trilogy in Before Midnight (2013) where couples of different generations are gathered together in a Greek villa for dinner....
What is Compulsory Heterosexuality
Am I a lesbian? It’s become a burning question spanning internet searches, stemming from an anonymously posted master doc on TikTok titled with the very question....
April Meetup Recap
We heated things a bit at the April Meetup! TMS founders Lili Stiefel and Ariel Bastida hopped right into the spring season by hosting an open discussion on the impact of mixe...