@rasheed.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Author of MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME (Lambda Lit Finalist; USA Today Bestseller) and THERE’S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD (2026). TV Writer; co-creator/executive producer of BEL-AIR.
We are truly blown away by the fact that 3 tantalizing teasers from the Indy Burlesque scene are going to share their talents just before our documentary’s WORLD PREMIERE at the Heartland International Film festival - in partnership with the Indy Dance Council. Get your tickets: HeartlandFilm.org
03.10.2025 19:36 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them." -Assata Shakur
Rest In Power ✊🏼
26.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 1732 🔁 576 💬 5 📌 12
THERE’S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD comes out from @flatironbooks.bsky.social on June 2, 2026, and is available for preorder everywhere books are sold. As seen in, People, this novel centers on a gay Black movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Sex, Hollywood censorship, and love abound.
23.09.2025 19:16 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
congrats to alejandro varela, a genius king 👑, and eternal applause to @rasheed.bsky.social for being an incomparable conversation partner 🥄 get your copy of this beaut—out now! 🩷
16.09.2025 20:25 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0My 10 yr old daughter asked me to escort her and her friends from the beach back to the house we’re renting. Her instructions: “Walk behind us and don’t talk to us please.”
I was proud she said, “please.”
When you get your novel back from the copyeditor, you have to explain some of your linguistic choices. A common thread has emerged in my notes….
20.07.2025 19:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Headshot of Visiting Fellow Rasheed Newson. He is looking at the camera in a blue button down and navy blue jacket with a pink flower pin and gold bug pin on it. You can see the "Hollywood" sign in Los Angeles in the background. The sky is gray. The bottom of the image has The American Library in Paris logo with the text "2025-26 Visiting Fellow Rasheed Newson"
Congratulations to 2025-26 Visiting Fellow Rasheed Newson! @rasheed.bsky.social
At the Library, Newson will work on a novel about a gay, African-American, male runway model who becomes a brief international sensation during Paris Fashion Week in 1992.
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OMG it's here! I just received a box of incredibly beautiful author copies of my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster, coming 8/19/25
A young trans witch teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic. It's about families, queer survival, and learning to see clearly the people you love most
The American Library in Paris selected me to be one of its 2025-2026 Vistiting Fellows. I am honored! I am elated! I may never return from Paris…
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I LOVE LA!
No Kings
We had fun! Thanks to Bel Canto Books and Kubo LB for hosting a book event to celebrate GAYSIANS, the beautiful, sexy, and insightful graphic novel by @mikecurato.bsky.social. GO BUY THIS BOOK!
12.06.2025 17:33 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The cover of Rasheed Newson's MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME. A black man's face in silhouette against an arch-shaped rainbow gradient, with the text wrapped around it.
Post a Queer Book Every Day of Pride Challenge, Day 10: MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME, by @rasheed.bsky.social
10.06.2025 16:39 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
A stack of queer books rests on a surface above the Bookshop.org logo. Words at the top read "Join Bookshop.org and LGBTQ Reads as we celebrate pride." A badge reads "20% off titles w/code PRIDE25".
Happy Pride Month! This year, LGBTQ Reads is partnering with @bookshop.org for a sale on over 100 books by LGBTQIA+ authors using code PRIDE25! bookshop.org/info/pride
04.06.2025 13:29 — 👍 227 🔁 155 💬 3 📌 16Thank you to @savidgereads.bsky.social for your kind words. (I love that my book is a “corker”) youtu.be/hfhl0pMMf1w?...
02.06.2025 15:54 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today is my birthday. I’m 46, and it dawned on me recently that if I want to write all the books and screenplays currently taking shape in my imagination, I’m going to need to live another 46 years — maybe longer. Time retains an urgency for me. I still have so much to do.
27.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 54 🔁 0 💬 9 📌 2
Today is #ReadAbook Weds!! Here are a few suggestions from:📚📚📚📚
@leslea.bsky.social
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@tyhunter.bsky.social
It’s my honor to share words of support for The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery from bestselling author, screenwriter and showrunner @rasheed.bsky.social. Ever grateful.✨ A glam horror urban fantasy available for preorder now at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clare...
30.04.2025 20:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday was Independent Bookstore Day, and I had a blast celebrating it at DYM BOOKS & BOBA with the brilliant @carolynkhuynh.bsky.social!
27.04.2025 15:26 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day at DYM Books & Boba from Noon to 4pm - 2057 N LOS ROBLES AVE, Pasadena, CA
Hi #booksky I am going to be celebrating Indie Bookstore Day at DYM BOOKS & BOBA today at noon.
How are you celebrating?
THIS SUNDAY! Want 2 Sell Your Pilot?!
ONLY 2 SPOTS!
Join @rasheed.bsky.social, E.P. of “Bel-Air,” Apr 27. He’ll dive into creating compelling hooks, building powerful story turns & sharpening your pilot’s premise/subtext in this group session.
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THIS SUNDAY! Meet Showrunner @rasheed.bsky.social (“Bel-Air”) in person via Zoom.
With years in writers’ rooms, Rasheed knows exactly what it takes to thrive in this industry—& he’s sharing that knowledge directly with u.
Apr 27 | Group Session
12-2PM PT
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Last night @ BookSoup, the tall and talented Seán Hewitt enthralled everyone during a conversation with @jasonblitman.bsky.social of @gaysreading.bsky.social Go buy Seán’s novel OPEN, HEAVEN. (I stayed up way too late reading the opening chapter. It is mesmerizing!)
19.04.2025 17:53 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Want your pilot to stand out?
Take a tip from @rasheed.bsky.social, exec producer of “Bel-Air.” He knows what it takes to create scripts that get noticed by showrunners, producers & execs.
Sign up 4 Rasheed’s April 27 Group Zoom to elevate your pilot!
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Want 2 Sell Your Pilot?!
Join @rasheed.bsky.social, E.P. of “Bel-Air,” Apr 27. He’ll dive into creating compelling hooks, building powerful story turns & sharpening your pilot’s premise/subtext in this intimate group session.
20% Off April 4-10
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19.03.2025 00:10 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Los Angeles!
At Chevalier's Bookstore on Friday, March 28th, come to
GAY DUDES BOOK CHAT!
We'll be celebrating the release of Rex Ogle's
WHEN WE RIDE
featuring Rasheed Newson, Marcelo Verdad Gallardo, Aaron Aceves, and myself!
RSVP: bit.ly/GDBC2025 ⬅️
#AWP #Gay #GayBooks #QueerBooks
New Mentor @rasheed.bsky.social!
Co-Showrunner of "Bel-Air”
He has sold pilots to HBO, Amazon & CBS & knows what it takes to craft a TV pilot that stands out. Now, he's bringing his expertise to u!
Hooks, Surprises & Subtext:
April 27 • 12-2PM PT via Zoom
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I had a wonderful time @butleru.bsky.social reading from “My Government Means to Kill Me,” and my next novel “There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood,” coming out in 2026.
05.03.2025 18:40 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.
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