This is so perfectly said. Much like when we rely on others' interpretations of our sources for our analysis, when we rely on society's presets to determine what is and is not political, we are actually reinforcing the often inequitable status quo.
Dr. Cara Berg Powers
"People think scientists aren’t political, but... the problem is that the very nature of our training teaches us to self-censor, that believing our work is objective is built into our incentive structures, that we are forced to compartmentalize our political perspective away from our scholarship."