Before a Black body can define itself, it is already being read, categorized and named.

This standalone audio teaser for Terry Blade's experimental documentary My Gender Is Black compresses the film's central tension into voice, music, rhythm and silence. A sequence of imposed labels gives way to a broader question about how race, gender, sexuality, desire and performance become layered onto the same body.

My Gender Is Black examines how expectation, performance, vulnerability, punishment and refusal shape Black masculinity, sexuality and gender, and what becomes possible when the Black body answers for itself.

Film: My Gender Is Black
Format: Official Audio Teaser-Trailer
Year: 2026
Director, Writer, Editor and Producer: Terry Blade
Music Supervision: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson
Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio | Presented by: Blade Arthouse Media
Agency: KUL/SHIFT
Music: "Maybe It's Over" by Messwave / Artlist Original

The audiovisual teaser for My Gender Is Black received a Gold Dolphin at the 2026 Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards in "Trailers and Teasers for Documentaries and Reports."

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American Franchise III: The Act - 1965 is the final audio public-service announcement in American Franchise, a #YourVoteMatters civic campaign from KUL/SHIFT and Blade Arthouse Media.

On January 15, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about voting rights and the principle that every eligible American should have equal access to the vote. Their recorded conversation provides the archival foundation for the final installment of the series.

American Franchise examines three moments in American voting history through archival audio, sound, music and editorial recontextualization: The Promise - 1944; The Demand - 1963; and The Act - 1965.

Campaign: American Franchise | #YourVoteMatters
In support of: National Voter Registration Day
Agency: KUL/SHIFT
Creative Director, Director, Editor and Copywriter: Terry Blade
Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio
Producers: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson
Archival Audio: Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum

Learn more about voter registration at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org.

American Franchise II: The Demand - 1963 is the second of three audio PSAs in American Franchise, a #YourVoteMatters archival-documentary public-service campaign.

On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on civil rights, including the right of every American to register and vote without interference or fear of reprisal. The spot reconnects that demand for equal citizenship to the continuing responsibility to participate in the electoral process.

American Franchise examines three moments in American voting history through archival audio, sound, music and editorial recontextualization: The Promise - 1944; The Demand - 1963; and The Act - 1965.

Campaign: American Franchise | #YourVoteMatters
In support of: National Voter Registration Day
Agency: KUL/SHIFT
Creative Director, Director, Editor and Copywriter: Terry Blade
Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio
Producers: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson
Archival Audio: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Learn more about voter registration at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org.

American Franchise I: The Promise - 1944 is the first of three audio PSAs in American Franchise, a #YourVoteMatters archival documentary public service campaign.

On October 5, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation on the right to vote and equal access to the ballot. The spot places his words in a contemporary voter registration context and closes with a call to register to vote at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org.

American Franchise examines three moments in American voting history through archival audio, sound, music and editorial recontextualization: The Promise - 1944; The Demand - 1963; and The Act - 1965.

Campaign: American Franchise | #YourVoteMatters
In support of: National Voter Registration Day
Agency: KUL/SHIFT
Creative Director, Director, Editor and Copywriter: Terry Blade
Production Company: Eighth Interval Studio
Producers: Terry Blade and Larry Robertson
Archival Audio: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

Learn more about voter registration at NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org.

Chicago Kinfolk: The Juke Joint Blues is an audio monograph by Terry Blade conceived as a 1970s Chicago juke joint brought to life through sound. The work functions as an ethnographic blues document and a composed listening experience, blending Blade's original songs with restored archival interview excerpts recorded in 1977 to place living voices of the tradition in direct dialogue with the present.

Built from meticulous research and curation of public-domain archival recordings, the project draws from materials associated with the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection held by the American Folklife Center at the U.S. Library of Congress. Issued intact, it is meant to be experienced beginning to end as a single, finished work rather than a talk-format episode.