Indonesian police fired teargas at soccer fans this past weekend, leading to one of the worst stadium disasters in history. After fans ran onto the field in Kanjuruhan Stadium, police used excessive force that led people into narrow exits where they got trampled. Officers are now being investigated. 125 people are dead, including 33 children, and more than 300 injured after home team Arema FC lost to its rival Persebaya Surabaya. The police chief says, things got “anarchic” once fans started attacking officers and damaging cars. FIFA’s security guidelines clearly prohibits the use of firearms or “crowd control gas” inside stadiums. Since Saturday, vigils have been gathering to mourn the victims–and the government says officers responsible will face criminal charges.

In Korea, K-pop dominates the dance industry. But shows like Street Girls Fighter are legitimizing dance–giving performers a platform to be seen as more than just back dancers. They say dance helps them be present–something that is still hard to do in Korea. Street Woman Fighter and its spin-off Street Girls Fighter are dance competitions that began highlighting more than K-Pop. They featured street dancing, which for many adults in Korea, is a pointless path. Even for the teens who are successful dancers, finding the answers to the questions from adults – “What are you going to do with this?” – feels like a very real pressure at a very young age. Despite the societal pressures, physical tolls, and injuries that come with this career, dancers like twenty-year-old Hong Hayeon say they hope to dance for the rest of their lives. Working together with other dancers as a unit is an art form, and being able to draw from your own personality to pair it with the dynamics of others is a skill of its own.

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The con would start with a phone call from a powerful Hollywood exec, with a life changing career making opportunity. Vague details are exchanged, and a trip to Jakarta, Indonesia to scout for locations and take meetings becomes necessary. The glamor and globality of it all feels flattering, and so victims were quick to take up the offer. Fast forward to Jakarta, and many requests for driver reimbursements, things start to get fishy. Victims would leave the country in frustration, without a job and with less money than when they arrived. The “Hollywood Con Queen”, who faked being Wendy Deng Murdoch to Kathleen Kennedy, ends up being a man called Hargobind Tahilramani, an Indian-Indonesian man, who often posed as a middle aged Chinese woman. Tahilramani is the son of a rich Indonesian film producer and was a food influencer before he scammed $2M dollars from victims. This month, he will be going to trial for several counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. If he loses, he will be extradited to a US prison.

Kim Jung-youn lost her father this year, and became the world’s youngest billionaire because of it. Founder of Nexon, Korea’s largest gaming company, Kim Jung Ju passed away in February and left both his daughters 1 billion dollars’ worth of stakes at his holding company. Nexon is known for iconic games like Maplestory, Dungeon & Fighter, and Kart Rider. But outside of Nexon, Kim was known for philanthropic work like founding a children’s hospital and Asia’s first museum dedicated to computers and gaming. Kim’s company issued a statement that he was suffering from depression, while also being the 3rd richest man in Korea at the time. His daughter has now surpassed 20-year-old Kevin David Lehmann, who was the world’s youngest billionaire, owning half of his father’s German drugstore chain.

Much like racism in the United States: everyone is born into their caste.The way people perceive you is shaped by your caste, and people can usually deduce what caste you are based on your name and skin color. In India, members of the lowest caste are murdered and sexually violated weekly–and more than reported. In America, lower caste employees face discrimination regularly. When people immigrated from India to the West, they brought the caste system with them. Today, the discrimination that comes with castes existing in America is larger than the average outside spectator can see. Artists like Meena Kandasamy, Arivu, and Yogesh Maitreya are addressing the caste system. Upper caste American Hindus are being called to action to be active in dismantling castes, and having difficult conversations with parents, grandparents, family, and friends. It’s not “anti-Hindu” to talk about caste, the same way it’s not “anti-white” to talk about racism. You can also donate to and support organizations working to dismantle caste like Dalit Solidarity, Equality Labs, Dalit Camera, and Mavelinadu Collective.