naomi gordon-loebl

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BIG NEWS TODAY: We are hiring an audience editor!! Come work with me and help @jewishcurrents.bsky.social grow! jewishcurrents.org/careers

To the Couple I Watched On My Middle School Commute — Off Assignment “Seventh grade was not a good year. I suspect it isn’t for most people, though each in our own way—Tolstoy might as well have been writing about middle schoolers, not families, when he wrote that ever...

Wrote for @offassignment.bsky.social about middle school, queer loneliness, and the people who help us imagine what we can't yet see. This one's tender for me, and I'm so grateful to Anya Tchoupakov for her wise and patient editing 🖤 offassignment.com/articles/nao...

Who’s the Boss? A bowdlerized biopic of Bruce Springsteen, starring Jeremy Allen White, flattens a musician whose politics and identity are much more complicated.

For @thenation.com, I wrote about the new Bruce Springsteen movie (spoiler: they left out all the good parts) www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Also news: I published this tiny piece, which is very close to my heart, about my twin sister, my top surgery, and the ways our bodies have grown and changed alongside each other. Thanks to @hungermtn.bsky.social for giving it a home 🖤 hngrmtn.org/issues/hunge...

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube Insomnia, a new little essay, and another new, not-so-little essay that makes me not-a-little nervous.

News: I started a Substack! Likely I will use this for infrequent updates about my writing and nothing else. But you know, come on in and let's find out together: open.substack.com/pub/naomigor...

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2025 Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize Winners Announced! — Passages North Congratulations to Naomi Gordon-Loebl and her essay “To Lose It,” winner of the 2025 Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize! Judge Sarah Minor on the winning essay: An intellectual romp that chases do...

Still pretty in shock about this news, and probably will be for a while. But: honored by these words from @sarahceniaminor.bsky.social and grateful that this very personal essay has found a home. It'll be out in @passagesnorth.bsky.social this fall! www.passagesnorth.com/passagesnort...

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wrote about everyone's favorite lovesick gay monster feeld.co/magazine/ple...

joke's really on the guy who stole my phone, because now HE has 65 unread texts to reply to

"saccharine, flattening, overly sentimental"! obviously written by some writer i used to know socially

I spent more than a decade writing this essay about my uncle David, who died of AIDS when I was 5. It's about his generation of queer folks, mine, and what was lost between us. Grateful to have this piece of him out in the world at The Florida Review. cah.ucf.edu/floridarevie...

Oh man, Avery. This means everything. Thank you, thank you, thank you 🥲