My research partner and I are writing about voter suppression and we're both committed to rigorous scholarship, but I think our analysis needs to explicitly name white supremacy and she keeps pushing for more 'neutral' language that she says will reach a broader audience. Every draft becomes a negotiation about how direct we can be about power and I'm exhausted by having to argue for calling things what they are.
More people experience this than they realize.
The tension between scholarly objectivity and political clarity can fracture intellectual partnerships when the stakes are systemic.
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