A review by lifeinpoetry
We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America by Brando Skyhorse, Lisa Page

4.0

Stories of different ways of passing, ranging from race, gender, sexuality, class, etc. Most of these are (un)comfortably familiar, the sorts of stories we've all heard, and (mostly) forgive. The first essay is the one that's extremely uncomfortable in being that of a racial minority passing for a more exotic, marginalized racial minority, out only to a select few. Brings to mind of how many brown people in Hollywood have taken on roles as Indigenous characters. I feel it would have been better served being placed further in because it gave the idea the anthology would be full of vaguely Rachel Dolezal-like authors when the rest of the anthology was quite the opposite.