Passing

An Alternative History of Identity

af Lipika Pelham

A slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is ΓÇÿcancelledΓÇÖ for denying her whiteness. A Victorian explorer disguises himself as a Muslim in ArabiaΓÇÖs forbidden holy city. A trans man claiming to have been assigned male at birth is exposed and murdered by bigots in 1993. Today, Japanese untouchables leave home and change their name.All of them have ΓÇÿpassedΓÇÖ, performing or claiming an identity tha... (Læs mere)