Thanks so much for your thoughts and the links. I’ve just read the abstract of Miki Kashtan’s article and the idea of the biology of love really resonates -I think we need to keep this idea in mind when approaching learning too, so ideas are integrated, not tagged on, which starts to engage with your point about language. In fact, you make two points, how fat might be received and embedding a binary. I have given lots of though to the first, and am still grappling with the second at the tension between fat as a category for political identity/self-ID and how to generate a third space in a way that doesn’t euphemize fatness. Sometimes I use ‘fatter and thinner’ to this end but I think there is a lot more that could be done.