As an undergraduate at the University of Central Florida I took a course called Queer Theory, hoping to understand my newly outed self. In retrospect, the bizarre readings always offered one tedious insight, that identity is a fiction created by the powerful. I never believed that, preferring to think that we make our own identity. While that class is thankfully behind me, I am still troubled by the hollow implication that it is better to use one's identity for political reasons than to simply embrace it.