Alex Adams

Alex Adams is a working-class nonbinary writer based in Jarrow, South Tyneside. They’ve written two books about the representation of torture, one of which focused exclusively on the ways that popular culture articulates justifications for torture. The first, Political Torture in Popular Culture, was published by Routledge in 2016, and the second, How to Justify Torture, was published by Repeater Books in 2019. They also research drone warfare and are writing the definitive academic study of Godzilla. Follow them on Twitter: @AlexAdams5 and @GDemonology.