This paper explores student participation in sexuality education. Framed through a posthumanist lens, the exploration is guided by the notions of assemblages, embodiment and affectivity, attending to student participation as relational processes. With collaborative and ethnographic methodologies across three secondary schools in Sweden, the empirical material includes interviews with teachers and students, workshops with teachers, and involvement in classroom teaching. The analysis maps how the sexuality education assemblage generates particular conditions through which student participation becomes enacted in relation to two key practices: the planning of teaching and classroom discussions. These practices are not viewed as discrete actions, but as vital components in the collective enactment, as they highlight the frictions of student participation in sexuality education and beyond. In the concluding remarks, the discussion turns to how listening with multi-dividual voices can afford the co-creation of both relevant and responsive sexuality education.

Public service media (PSM) based sexual health education is a promising approach to use with young people. However, few studies to date have analysed sexual health content in Nordic PSM. A qualitative content analysis was conducted of PSM podcast content, highlighting the sexual health-related topics addressed and the opportunities for participation provided. Data were collected in line with predetermined inclusion criteria and guided by professionals working at Yle, a Finnish PSM company. Three podcasts, comprising a total of 66 episodes, met the inclusion criteria (i.e. produced between 2021 and 2023 and targeting young people). The most prevalent sexual health topics were sexual pleasure and interpersonal communication skills. Although participatory aspects were present, such as listeners choosing topics and the hosts being young people themselves, participation remained superficial due to limited dialogue. The findings highlight opportunities to enhance sexual health education and employ PSM more fully to promote young people's sexual health, through a focus on the positive aspects of sex and sexuality that are often lacking in formal education.

Drawing from a practice-based research study in Swedish secondary schools, the aim of this paper is to explore how facts and values are made and unmade as separate and entangled phenomena in sexuality education. In this exploration, we work with a posthumanist approach - agential realism - and more specifically the concept of agential cuts. The empirical material draws from moments in the teaching of sexuality education, one concerning nakedness and one concerning gender diversity. The analysis puts forward how the lesson topics in relation to school subjects and exercises become significant actors in how facts and values are enacted in the teaching. This implies that facts and values are enacted together-apart within a relational set of interdependency and hence are always present although temporarily more forcefully and ephemeral. To conclude, we discuss the complexities of how facts and values are part of enacting the everchanging knowledge area of sexuality education and urge for acknowledgment of this matter. 

Whole-school sexuality education: An interview study on the collective conditions for collaboration and change. This article explores how whole-school sexuality education is enacted within collective conditions. Drawing on actor-network theory, these collective conditions are examined as socio-material capacities that both stabilize and weaken sexuality education in relation to other actors and practices. The empirical material is based on interviews with three teachers who are particularly engaged in sexuality education. Through the process of tracing, the analysis focuses on entanglements and translations. Rather than being involved in stable translations, it is subject to constant nego-tiations, rendering it fluid and fragile and marked by ambivalence. The conclusion states that sexuality education must be handled with care, and offers a tentative suggestion for how this can be carried out.