<p>Stories at the intersection of women and politics.</p>
When she was 14, Xiomara picked up a gun and joined Colombia’s Marxist guerrilla group, the FARC. She stayed in the wilderness for 15 years. Now she faces the challenges of thousands of other women who have left the rebel group: how to come back.
Um-E Salma was just 17 when she was married. And she was scared. But she wouldn’t let the marriage, or the daughter who came a little while later, deter her from her dreams. And now she’s hoping her daughter has a better path.