Poundbury : a queer tour of monarchy / Homosexual Death Drive.

"This funny, playful, rude and serious artist's book is for anyone who wants an alternative queer and Othered take on the soft and hard power of monarchy. It reveals the discrepancy between its optics and objectives. Homosexual Death Drive plays The Groom of the Stool, or royal arse-wiper. She guides you through Poundbury's grandiose avenues and lesser-known alleyways. In a bizarre twist, she meets Camilla at Buckingham Palace. Discover Poundbury's history, ideology, use of pseudo-tradition, greenwash and social control. Homosexual Death Drive introduces you to some of its people and reveals how they resist royal power-tripping. She argues that Poundbury is currently a death zone that could be redeemed as a postmodern theme park for artists, queers and Others. Poundbury includes original research, personal reflection, drawings, poetry, experimental writing and Al-generated texts. It is shaped by queer theory, feminism, neurodivergence and the social model of disability, working class identity, decolonisation, environmental activism and anarchism. Its guiding principles are: beauty, intelligence, humour, integrity, the liberation of all beings."--Provided by publisher.