Ilana Masad

Ilana Masad

Bio

Ilana Masad is a queer Israeli-American writer living in New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Tin House, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Broadly, Vice, and more. She is the founder and host of The Other Stories, a podcast that features new, emerging, and struggling fiction writers.

Ilana Masad Articles

 These are the things I miss about Hanukkah.

Singing Badly Together (And Other Things I Miss About Hanukkah)

When we talk about Hanukkah traditions, so often they are discussed as serious and somber. But tradition, prayers, hymns — can be joyful, silly, irreverent.

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"My illness creates the standard for myself; the rest of me has come to ignore beauty standards altogether, especially when it comes to other people."

Why Can't I See My Body The Way I See Other People's Bodies?

I have particular standards of beauty that I believe apply to my body — my body, and no one else’s.

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