Ruth Negga interviewed by Emma Dabiri for the 'Black Irish Lives' issue of the Irish Times

[qaladriel]

What a fantastic interview. One of the best celebrity interviews I've read. Ruth Negga and @EmmaDabiri talking Audre Lorde, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Dubois and there's even some Foucault. No fluff, all https://t.co/WvLBs9nUxV
- Theresa O'Keefe (@Theresa_OKeefe) July 4, 2020

Emma Dabiri, author of 'Don't Touch My Hair' interviewed actress Ruth

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[__onthebound]

yessssss! this came in my daily times digest. i haven't had time to read it...i just wanted to post celebrating this limerick goddess

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[ohwutevernvm]

My god, Ruth Negga is literally perfect. I hope she’s doing well and happy where she is now.

[therearewords]

I'm going to need a print of that cover, didn't know she had Ethiopian background and now I'm trying to find the linguistic background of her family name and how to pronounce it.

[Spoiler (click to open)]NEGA
NEGA

This name is of Ethiopian origin. Nega is a male personal name. It is an Amharic expression, which literally means "the night has passed". The common meaning is that with the new child, the difficulties are behind.

All the names of Ethiopian origin included in this database are personal names rather than family names. In Ethiopia Jewish families do not bear fixed hereditary family names. Most of the personal names in our database are words or expressions in either Amharic or Tigrinya, two Ethiopic languages. They are drawn from everyday life, from nature, from the Bible and local tradition, and from names of grandparents and ancestors.

Source: https://dbs.bh.org.il/familyname/nega

How can people not find stuff like this interesting.

[justbolognese]

wow! very interesting. Poetic name. Thanks for the link

[vanouria]

wow what a beautiful meaning behind that name!

[therearewords]

I don't know if there's absolute similarities, but this is the closest I found.

[kaiserschmarrn]

For a second I was afraid Ruth would turn out to be a Foucault fan. Thankfully the reference doesn't come from her. He was a major creep and I wish intellectuals would stop relying on him so much. Very interesting interview overall though.

[justbolognese]

Oh no is Foucault cancelled ?!
jk, I guess you mean the 1977 petition? It's baffling how like 80% of intellectuals of that time were like "oh come on let us have sex with kids". I don't understand why it's such a prevalent thing in French intellectual circles. And I say is not was.

[kaiserschmarrn]

Yeah he was definitely not the only one, actually I side-eye all the French intellectuals from that time who signed that petition. But Foucault did more than signing it, he was really out there doing radio interviews where he argued that child rape is okay. And it's extra sinister considering his well-known libertine stance on sexual sadomachism. It's not like when people quote him, those are insightful quotes either, I have yet to hear one presentation in academia where a random quote from him isn't just shoehorned in for the sake of it because it supposedly sounds deep instead of just daft.

Idk I have a lot of feelings about tweets like the first one in this post that namedrop him as if it's a cool thing. Especially next to writers like Dubois, Lorde and Douglass.

[justbolognese]

Yeah, it was certainly sexual liberties pushed to its extreme, and the fact that the debate rages on (I supposed you've heard about the book about Matzneff and the book about him? People still liked in 2020 to discuss it as if it's normal, which is probably why Polanski and co aren't ever going away)
I can't talk about whether or not it's deep or daft, I'm an idiot who has never read anything of his ahah