In the country of the sacred heart, that is, Colombia, very strange things happen, such as this story of a woman who, against the system, decided to change her name to ABCDEFG HIJKLMN OPQRST UVWWXYZ, it is not a mistake, that is her name.
During an interview with the BBC Lady said it with the seriousness of the case, without the intention of making fun of anyone: since February 2013 her names and surnames before the people registration offices of the Republic of Colombia are, one after the other, the 26 letters of the alphabet .
“They were always classifying me with letters: that LGBTthat HC (hardcore), BDSMso I wanted my name to mean that I am all that, but at the same time I am nothing”, he told BBC World ABCDEFGwho before his change was known as Ladyzunga.
A fantasy name, chosen by this performance artist, DJ and designerwith an explosive character and with a taste for provoking and breaking conventions.
That explosion of character is noticeable when talking to her: she was about to cut the interview for this note twice, after two questions to clarify points about her story.
“Things are the way I like them… I always felt that the name my parents had given me did not represent me. Kind of looked like all the names.»he added.
The one now, on the other hand, meets a requirement: not having a recognizable gender. Not being a man or a woman: a declaration of principles that Ladyzunga set out to make.
ABCDEFG was born in Popayán, a peaceful city located on the mountains of southwestern Colombia, in 1978. Although he graduated in graphic design at the University of Cauca, his true vocation was the plastic arts.
For that reason, he traveled to Bogotá and began to carry out performances where music -eclectic, strange, thunderous- was the protagonist.
“Over time I realized that I wanted to change my name. Throughout 2012 I reflected well on the subject and decided that I was going to do it”ABCDEFG explained.
“First I thought it was rude, something that would make people react when they read it. But I realized at the same time that nobody was going to pronounce it, so I thought about other things, until I got to the alphabet”he remembered.
During an artistic presentation in Cali -the third city of the country- In December 2012, he decided that he would travel to his native Popayán, which was only two hours away, to proceed with the change.
“They had told me that it was a procedure that would last five days and cost 45,000 pesos (about US$20),” he recalled.
Well, it lasted 90 days and several pesos more.
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Taken from BBC