Dictionary of conditions to use with pandas in a loop

Question

I need to create multiple pivottables wherein only part that changes is data passed to it. e.g.

Q1 = pd.pivot_table(df1, values='id', index='race', columns='gender', aggfunc='count')
Q2 = pd.pivot_table(df1[df1['state']=='NJ'], values='id', index='race', columns='gender', aggfunc='count')
Q3 = pd.pivot_table(df1[df1['zipcode']=='07030'], values='id', index='race', columns='gender', aggfunc='count')

Instead of writing each pivot statement multiple times, I would like to create a dictionary of questions:conditions and provide the condition of each question in the argument for pivottable, using a for loop that would look something like this:

filter = {"Q1": "", "Q2":"df1['state']=='NJ'", "Q3":"df1['zipcode']=='07030'" }

for qn, mask in filter.items():
    Qx = pd.pivot_table(df1[mask], values='id', index='race', columns='gender', aggfunc='count')
    Qx.to_excel('some.xlsx') 

Obviously this throws error since mask is read-in as a string. How do you make it read as not a string? Thanks!