He has an ID badge from every studio lot. He worked as a production assistant an executive assistant an assistant to a showrunner and the second assistant to a network president. In 2002, Rasheed moved to Los Angeles and joined the entertainment industry. For five years, he volunteered with friends as a tutor/playmate at Grandma’s House, a group home for foster care children who were HIV+ or living with AIDS. During his time in Washington, D.C., he also worked in the communication and media departments for several non-profit organizations, including the Coalition for Juvenile Justice. Rasheed is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he wrote movie reviews for the school newspaper, The Hoya. Rasheed once spent several hours sitting in a coffee shop because he’d heard rumors that gay people frequented the coffee shop. No mean feat in Indiana in the mid-1990’s. While attending a Jesuit high school, Rasheed realized that he was definitely a homosexual, and he immediately aimed to become a practicing homosexual. Trey immerses himself in the bathhouse scene, works at an AIDS hospice, and marches in the streets in an attempt to make sense of the world. It was years before Rasheed had the courage to consider himself a writer. A vibrant, humorous, and sexy, queer coming-of-age novel, My Government Means to Kill Me follows Trey, a young, gay, Black man as he experiences a personal and political awakening in 1980s New York City. Nikki Giovanni and Kurt Vonnegut were among his favorite writers. My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (Goodreads Author) Release date: Were giving away 100 early ARC copies of a coming-of-age novel MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME.
He showed an early interest in reading poetry and fiction. Rasheed grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is the eldest of three children.
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