Mark Lockwood
SPAN Postdoctoral Fellow
- mark.lockwood@northwestern.edu
- 1860 Campus Drive, Crowe Hall, Room 5-141
- Office Hours: by appointment only, make an appointment by email
Research Interests:
Pornography
Sex Work and Sexual Economies
Gay Porn History
Black Queer Studies
Black Masculinity
Oral History
Visual and Erotic Archives
Harm Reduction
HIV/AIDS
About:
Mark Lockwood is a porn scholar, resource mobilizer, and pleasure-centered harm reductionist who earned his PhD in American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Broadly, he writes, teaches, and researches about race & pornography, gay porn history, sexual cultures, harm reduction, and the sex industries. He is currently writing a book project tentatively titled Black Inches: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Erotic Resistance in the ‘Blatino Porn’ Era. This book is the first to provide a rich analysis on the history, biographies, material production, and sexual representations Black and Latino (“blatino”) pornographers in the “blatino porn” era. This project explores how blatino pornographers created pornographic content for themselves, by themselves at a moment in gay porn history when men of color were largely excluded from mainstream pornographic media industries. Using personal interviews, archival research, historiography, and film analyses, he explores how blatino pornographers pursued their own entrepreneurial efforts to gain control over the means of production; worked within an industry that commodified their sexualities; and challenged, and sometimes subverted, stereotypical depictions of their representations in the pornographic. He has two forthcoming scholarly articles in Porn Studies.
Mark is invested in bridging the gaps between academia and the public. As such, he has over a decade of experience working in harm reduction and the sex worker’s rights movement. He has worked across multi-sectoral agencies and has a wealth of expertise in strategic grantmaking, capacity building, technical assistance, and community-based research with efforts to mobilize the freedom of people in the sex trade industry. Additionally, Mark was a community organizer with DECRIMNOWDC, a collective of Black and Brown sex workers, organizers, and allies, where he helped develop and strategize around sex worker rights and harm reduction policy at the local level in Washington, D.C.
He is actively involved with Red Umbrella Fund, the first & only global fund dedicated to supporting the rights of sex workers; and on the Research and Knowledge Committee for the Sex Workers Donor Collaborative, a network of funders that convene to increase funding to support sex workers’ rights. To learn more about his work, please visit his website at: www.marklockwoodjr.com