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Bryan Rolli is a reporter who specializes in streaming entertainment. He writes about music and film for Forbes, Billboard, and the Austin American-Statesman. He met Flavor Flav in two separate Las Vegas bowling alleys and still can’t stop talking about it.

Bryan Rolli

Walmart ignites controversy for describing wig cap with a racial slur

Nahila Bonfiglio reports on geek culture and gaming. Her work has also appeared on KUT&#8217;s Texas Standard (Austin), KPAC-FM (San Antonio), and the Daily Texan.

Nahila Bonfiglio

Bar under fire for calling customers racist names, decorating beers in a swastika

Samantha Grasso is a former IRL staff writer for the Daily Dot with a reporting emphasis on immigration. Her work has appeared on AJ+, Vox, Splinter, Los Angeles Magazine, and Austin Monthly.

Samantha Grasso

White woman undergoes cosmetic procedures to make herself ‘black’

Kris Seavers was the senior IRL editor and training director for the Daily Dot. Her work has appeared in Central Texas publications, including Austin Monthly and San Antonio Magazine, and on NPR.

Kris Seavers

Austin band Dream Machine dropped from label following ‘ugly opinions’ on immigration, feminism

Nico Lang is an essayist, movie critic, and reporter who specializes in the intersection of politics and LGBTQ issues. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, Jezebel, Esquire, and BuzzFeed, among other notable publications.

Nico Lang

Culture

In Trump’s America, racism on gay dating apps is getting worse

Aliah Luckman

Young black woman making 'shh' gesture with finger over lips

A guide to (not) using the N-word

Ashlee K Thomas in the music video of her song Ghetto.

A white woman wrote a song about moving to the ‘ghetto’—and it’s gone over about as well as you’d think

Former reporter Valerie Hoff from Atlanta

White reporter resigns after her attempt to jokingly use the N-word with a source

FaceApp has been accused of whitening skin with their "hot" filter.

FaceApp is ‘deeply sorry’ for its skin-whitening ‘hot’ filter

Rachel Dolezal in an interview with Salon.

Rachel Dolezal says transgender people face less prejudice than she does as ‘transracial’

Jessica Machado is the former IRL editor of the Daily Dot. Previously, she was an associate editor at Rolling Stone. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Elle, Vice, Salon, BuzzFeed, Guernica, Bitch, Bust, the Cut, the Awl, the Toast, among others.

Jessica Machado

Trump supporters ask to #BoycottHawaii—and it spectacularly backfires

BBC journalist Robert Kelly, viral, wife not nanny

No, the woman in the viral BBC video of interrupting kids is not the nanny

Daily Dot Contributor

Cities around the country prepare for a ‘Day Without Immigrants’

Jaya Saxena is a lifestyle writer and editor whose work focuses primarily on women&#8217;s issues and web culture. Her writing has appeared in GQ, ELLE, the Toast, the New Yorker, The Hairpin, BuzzFeed, Racked, Eater, Catapult, and others. She is the co-author of &#8216;Dad Magazine,&#8217; the author of &#8216;The Book Of Lost Recipes,&#8217; and the co-author of &#8216;Basic Witches.&#8217;

Race