She is ‘Yellamma’ or everyone’s mother. A Devi for all the shades between male and female. This vision of Her came to me around the time India scrapped a colonial-era law and decriminalized gay sex. I am no scholar; I believe that we all have the right to be our own unique divine selves. This Devi is the beloved goddess of eunuchs in India. Her story tells of a woman who harbors a single adulterous thought and is punished brutally by her husband, only to return as a mother-goddess, beyond the control of patriarchal society, who may simultaneously be the radiant, domestic Gauri, and the dark, wild Kali!