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That’s what we want to know at ThisIsWhatWomenWant.com and in NYC on Tuesday . We’re sending your answers to the media and the candidates all election long.

I know Ann alreday wrote about our This Is What Women Want project in general, but I wanted to give you an update and make sure New Yorkers know about Tuesday’s final live speakout , featuring Kate Bornstein , Kety Esquivel , Shelby Knox , Maegan "la Mala" Ortiz, Betsy Reed, Amy Richards, Deborah Siegel, Carmen Van Kerkhove and numerous other national and community leaders, plus a range of real, diverse women (including you, we hope!) taking advantage of our open mic.
So far, we’ve been to Boston, MA, Oxford, MS, Saint Louis, MO, and Nashville, TN, and in every city we heard from smart, passionate women about what they want from the next President. Hundreds more women have spoken out online, and many thousands have voted on those online speakouts.
It’s been incredibly inspiring to hear a common vision emerge – one in which all Americans have quality health care, equal pay, financial security, free speech, a right to privacy, bodily autonomy, safety in their communities, access to a good education, the ability to decide whom and how they love and to care adequately for their families. One in which we, as Americans, treat people and ...