Lunga Noélia

“I wonder why they named me Lunga since it means strong and my entire life I felt like I wasn’t strong as my name stood for. The other day I met this guy who told me that when he finally knew himself, he changed his name into something new and different. He told me that his original name represented something to his parents and not him, the name meant his parents’ story, not his. I too wanted to name myself something else, so I didn’t have to carry this responsibility of trying to be strong.”
― Lunga Noélia Izata, The story is about me

“You know there is always something I am not ok with, it’s either my hair is falling like crazy, I am gaining weight or my skin looks terrible. I just feel like sometimes it’s my mind speaking through my body saying that I am not ok. But today I was ok…”
― Lunga Noélia Izata, The story is about me

“They say rape is the practice of sexual intercourse without consent but in my case, I did consent. I knew it wasn’t him. I could tell it was another person that was in that room with me. Have you ever watched the movie “Face off”? They had this ‘hand-down-the-face’ touch that distinguished the bad guy from the good guy. I remember touching his face, I knew it wasn’t him.”
― Lunga Noélia Izata, The story is about me

“Love is not endless, depression is… you just need to be able to live happily with that”
― Lunga Noélia Izata, The story is about me