In this two part series of Mic Dispatch, Mic’s Jake Horowitz interviews Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cynthia Nixon for New York to understand how women are changing the face of the Democratic Party. Following this, a group of women in New York known as Fat Girls Dance is bucking the perceptions of what plus-size women are able to do with their bodies. Chantel Simpson talks with them about how they’re inspiring women all over the world.