 In contrast to feminists who defend an obligation to resist oppression, Daniel Silvermint examines the phenomenon of “passing as privileged” as a way to navigate one’s oppression so as to promote one’s well-being. Silvermint describes “passing as privileged” as occurring “when a member of an oppressed, stigmatized, or otherwise discriminated-against group x is passively or actively perceived to be a member of a privileged group y, thereby escaping the unjust barriers and burdens that come with being identified as an x and/or accessing the advantages that come with being (mis)identified as a y” (Silvermint 2018, 6). He is concerned mainly with “active passing,” which is a strategy used to create or avoid the perception of a certain kind of person, such as when an immigrant family Anglicizes their last name in order to hide their naturalized status (3). His concern is whether a victim of oppression ought to pass as a non-victim when they can successfully do so.