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🎬 MOVIE NIGHT IS BACK AND WE NEED YOUR HELP.

May 29th. 6PM onwards. Snacks. Chaos.
But first ,you pick the movie. 🗳️
Drop your vote in our stories now !

Most votes wins. Democracy has never felt this gay.

DM us or drop a 🟡 in the comments to save your seat and get the location — spots are limited but not the popcorn.

The top picks

Frangipani - The one closest to home. Sri Lanka's very own q***r film, a love triangle between two men and a woman set in a village where colonial laws make loving dangerous. Beautiful, melancholy, and made right here on our island. A must-watch if you haven't.

Badhaai Do - The one that broke Bollywood. A gay cop and a le***an teacher enter a lavender marriage to get their families off their backs and somehow end up with something real. Funny, warm, and quietly revolutionary for mainstream Indian cinema.

I Can't Think Straight -The one that started a thousand awakenings. A Palestinian woman on the verge of her engagement meets a British Indian woman and suddenly nothing makes sense anymore. A South Asian le***an love story with big feelings and even bigger family drama.

A Nice Indian Boy - The one that got the most laughs. A shy Indian-American doctor finally meets someone perfect — a charming, Bollywood-obsessed white man raised by Indian parents. When it's time to bring him home, chaos, love, and a very fabulous wedding follow. 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. We're obsessed.

See you on the 29th. Come hungry. Come chaotic. Come as you are.

💛 Yellowdot Community

The end of 2025 saw Yellowdot and DreamSpace Academy coming together to support 23 women entrepreneurs from Across Batticaloa from Kattankudy, Sammanthurai, Eravur, Kaluwanchikudy to Maruthamunai.

The data from our first Dreams of Women Entreprenuer Programme tells us
8 women were already running businesses at the time of the session, across food, fashion, handicrafts, beauty, agriculture, and retail
11 women were actively planning to launch a business and attended to build confidence and skills
Only 3 of the active businesses were formally registered — reflecting the gap between informal enterprise and access to the formal economy
9 women (45%) cited lack of finance as their biggest challenge — not skills or ideas, but access to capital
The #1 topic participants wanted to learn more about was marketing and branding (9 women), followed by business strategy (5), and funding access (4)
9 of 20 participants hold a degree, diploma, or HND — demonstrating that this is not a skills deficit, but a systems deficit

Long-Term Programme Vision
This session was the first in a continuing series. Future sessions will include quarterly workshops on topics identified through ongoing community consultation, a mentorship programme pairing each entrepreneur with a sector-relevant mentor, and ecosystem partnerships including exploratory connections with business enablers to support scale-up.

Want to partner, fund, or mentor? Reach out to [email protected]

In the Northern Province, persons with disabilities shared how recurring floods and economic hardship continue to deepen existing vulnerabilities. Long distances to services, limited accessible transport, and fragile livelihoods made recovery even more difficult.

We heard stories of partially damaged homes, the loss of small businesses, limited access to medication and assistive devices, and support systems that failed amidst the widespread damage.

Recovery cannot be one-size-fits-all. It must prioritise disability inclusion, strengthen local support networks, and invest in resilient livelihoods so communities can rebuild with dignity and stability from the very beginning.

In the Northern Province, we sat with persons with disabilities and their families to understand what recovery truly looks like months after the floods. What we heard was an urgent need for long-term survival as a community.

Homes remain damaged and unsafe. Livelihoods have not recovered. Food insecurity continues. Access to healthcare, assistive devices, and transport is fragile. For many families, income has not stabilised, and daily essentials are out of reach.

The floods exposed deep, long-standing systemic failures, especially for persons with disabilities who were already navigating exclusion before the disaster. We understood how badly the strategy for recovery must focus on being long-term, inclusive, and accountable. It must restore safe housing, rebuild livelihoods, guarantee accessible healthcare, and ensure that persons with disabilities are no longer left at the margins.

Join us on 23rd February 2026 at Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka, Colombo 7, from 4.30 PM to learn more about what we heard through our conversations with persons with disabilities. For confirmation of your attendance, DM us now. 💛

In Central and Uva provinces, we sat with persons with disabilities and their families and listened to what recovery truly means to them. Many are still living in fragile, temporary shelters; homes damaged by landslides, leaking roofs, and inadequate sanitation.

Families shared the ongoing strain of meeting basic needs. Food, nutritious meals, medication, oxygen, assistive devices, and transport to hospitals are daily necessities. With disrupted livelihoods and limited income, these essentials have become harder to access, deepening financial and emotional stress.

What we heard is clear: recovery must move beyond short-term aid. It must prioritize safe housing, accessible healthcare, coordinated and fair support systems, inclusive education for children with disabilities, and sustainable livelihood opportunities that restore independence.

Join us on the 23rd of February 2026  to learn more about what learnt through our conversations with people with disabilities. For more information, DM us.