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Formal school-based sexuality education rarely engages with the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, inter, queer and asexual (LGBTIQA+) youth. This paper therefore focuses on sexuality education as reflected in peer-led LGBTIQA+ activist discourses from Switzerland. Discourse analysis was conducted on the ‘problematisation’ of anal sex between 2012 and 2023 in the question-and-answer section of the LGBTIQA+ youth magazine Milchbüechli. The analytical focus was informed by Foucault’s work, taking ‘techniques of the self’ as a point of departure. It aimed to uncover how people come to recognise themselves as subjects of desire in LGBTIQA+ discourses. The results show that peer-led LGBTIQA+ discourses overcome some of the limitations of more formal kinds of sexuality education, for example, through their focus on pleasure or the deconstruction of phallocentric thinking. However, the discourses also fail to consider the sexual body as relational and therefore fail to articulate sexual ethics that are grounded beyond notions of personal autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims at connecting the Berlin school of Critical psychology with queer-feminist theories by focusing on the concept of the analysis of conditions-meanings-justifications (Bedingungs-Bedeutungs-Begründungsanalyse, BBBA). To this end, we will firstly exemplify basic aspects of the BBBA-concept, which forms an important analytical tool of Critical psychology. Secondly, we will present possible connecting lines to queer-feminist approaches. In so doing, we will argue that the concept of conditions offers links to feminist theories of New Materialism and critical economy. The concept of meaning contains parallels to the Foucauldian concept of discourse, which is central to many queer-feminist approaches. In turn, justification-analysis provides an opportunity to understand why subjects who live in similar material conditions and social constellations of meaning behave differently. The example of single mothers serves to illustrate the facets of the BBBA-concept and the conditions- meanings-justifications-analysis. In this way, we want to emphasize the potential of Critical psychology for queer feminist approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]