Growing sideways: Re‐articulating ontologies of childhood within/through relationships and sexuality education (RSE)

This article presents a collaborative reflective-thinking-writing project that draws from the authors’ experiences of co-productive and critical inquiry with children in field gender, sexualities education. Integrating our collective concerns regarding how childhood can be negatively framed policed within/through RSE, we explore these ontological boundaries might queered through engagement possibilities for/of RSE is affirmative, playful co-produced with, rather than for, children.