More Debate Coverage

My review of the 3rd Democratic Presidential Debate is up at the Center for Disability Rights blog:

The Full Plate and The Missing Topic

… and Emily Munson’s take on the same debate:

Three for Three: All the Candidates Disappointed

It’s interesting that we both took notice of the candidates’ campaign against opiates. It might be a thing, and it’s certainly the kind of issue that can unique disabled people across party and ideological lines.

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More Debate Coverage

My take on the 5th Republican Presidential Debate is up at the Center for Disability Rights blog:

Safety At All Costs: Safety At All Costs Republican Presidential Debate: December, 15 2015

Emily Munson also wrote about the same debate for CDR:

Republicans Strategize and Engage: The National Security Debate

Our politics are different, but I think our posts go together pretty well.

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Mocking Trump

Check out my take on Donald Trump’s weird gestures over the Thanksgiving Weekend, at the Center for Disability Rights blog.

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More Debate Coverage

My review of Saturday night’s Democratic Presidential debate is up at the Center for Disability Rights website:

Disappointing, But Not A Waste Of Time

November 17, 2015

There’s also a great piece on the same debate by Emily Munson:

Explosions, Verbal And Otherwise

November 17, 2015

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Debate Coverage

I have started writing blog posts on the 2016 Elections for the website of the Center for Disability Rights in Rochester, New York. Go check out my first two, about the 3rd and 4th Republican candidate debates.

And How Will That Work For Disabled People? The 3rd Republican Debate

October 30, 2015

It’s Up To Us

November 11, 2015

I’ll be writing about the 2nd Democratic debate this coming Saturday, November 14.

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Shared Abilities Article

Shared Abilities just posted what I hope will be a series of items where parents of kids with disabilities “Ask Andrew” questions about what it is like to grow up from being a disabled child into a disabled adult. Obviously, I have mainly my own experience to draw from, and it’s not like everything went exactly the way it’s supposed to for me. But I figure the failures and shortcomings taught me just as much as the victories.

The first article is: Adult with Disabilities Shares What Kids with Disabilities Need to Learn.

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"The Daily Dot" Article

A 2016 candidate's guide to the disability vote

Andrew Pulrang, The Daily Dot - April 21, 2015

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"The Daily Dot" Article

The 7 disability issues everyone needs to know about

Andrew Pulrang, The Daily Dot - March 13, 2015

This is the first of what I hope will be more articles on disability published at The Daily Dot. Thanks to Alice Wong (@SFdirewolf) for putting me in touch with them, and huge thanks to S. E. Smith (@sesmithwrites) for patient editing and showing me the ropes at The Daily Dot.

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Season 1, Episode 10 of “Red Band Society"

Red Band Society 1×10 ’What I Did For Love’: Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve begun our final descent

Gotta Watch It! - December 4, 2014

This week’s ‘fall finale’ of ‘Red Band Society’ makes a pretty good case that Fox’s announcement last week that it has halted production … all but canceling the series … may not be a such a disaster for the show’s fans.

Season 1, Episode 9 Of "Red Band Society”

Red Band Society 1×9 ‘How Did We Get Here?’: Mid-season adjustments

Gotta Watch It! - November 28, 2014

I expected a classic Thanksgiving episode this week, with the ‘Red Band’ gang making their own ‘family’ dinner with turkey roll from the cafeteria. It looks instead like the writers had some unfinished structural business to attend to, and took the opportunity to fill in some of the weaker characters and neglected themes. This isn’t the most exciting episode, but there’s some good repair work here that sets the show up well for the second half of this premier season.

Season 1, Episode 8 Of "Red Band Society”

'Get Outta My Head, Get Into My Car’: The doctors

Gotta Watch It! - November 21, 2014

There’s something about a doctor strumming a guitar in a hospital. It doesn’t inspire confidence. It’s more likely to provoke eye-rolling. But don’t give up on the singing doc just yet. He might be onto something.

Season 1, Episode 7 Of "Red Band Society"

‘Know Thyself’: Reality Checks

Gotta Watch It! - November 13, 2014

This week, everyone on ‘Red Band Society’ got a rough but arguably overdue reality check, the viewers included.

Season 1, Episode 6 of “Red Band Society"

'Ergo, Ego'

Gotta Watch It!

We pick up immediately after the last scene of the last episode. Nurse Jackson has just switch Coma Boy’s blood sample. Now she’s carting a crate full of blood samples down the hall, each step bringing her closer to the point of commitment, when she hands over the samples and leaves behind any possibility of changing her mind.

Season 1, Episode 5 of “Red Band Society"

Heading into the World Series break, ‘Red Band Society’ is on a bit of a winning streak. This is the second excellent episode in a row. More specifically, this week’s episode finally filled in the last of the gaping character and story gaps that have weakened the show since its premiere.

(Click here to read more at “Gotta Watch It!”)

Season 1, Episode 4 of “Red Band Society”

Four episodes in, and this is the first time I have been completely absorbed in ‘Red Band Society,’ my mind and emotions fully engaged in something other than nit-picking. The show finally began to fulfill it’s promise when Leo got up to give that impromptu roast of Kara, at what was supposed to be a treacly tribute at her high school prom.

(Click here to read more at “Gotta Watch It!”)

Red Band Society, Season 1, Episode 3 Review

My review of the 3rd episode of “Red Band Society” is up at Gotta Wach It!

This is a troubled show though the seeds of a good show are still there, buried, with a few more weeks left to sprout before I get tired of waiting. It’s more of a teen soap than a disability show, and that’s okay. It can be a better disability show if it fills in some of its more glaring credibility gaps, including, but not limited to it’s incomplete depictions of chronic illness and disability.

"Red Band Society" - Season 1, Episode 2 Review

Red Band Society 1×2 ‘Sole Searching’: Shut up, coma boy!

Andrew Pulrang, Gotta Watch It! - September 25, 2014

I just posted my review of the second episode of “Red Band Society”. It’s getting a bit better, with some welcome small doses of reality.

Red Band Society - Pilot

I just posted my review of the “Red Band Society” Pilot episode. There are lots of flaws here, but with luck, some of them could turn into assets if the writers have the understanding and courage to make it happen. I think those of us who have disabilities, and had them in our youth. will find enough here to keep us engaged, and not entirely consumed with nit-picking.

Red Band Society 1×1 ‘Pilot’: The best hospital ever

Andrew Pulrang, Gotta Watch It! - September 18, 2014

Stay tuned. I’ll be reviewing every episode of this first season, on Thursdays after Wednesday night airings.

"Shared Abilities" Blog Post

I have a new blog post up at Shared Abilities, "Could You Design a Better System?” Do check it out, and leave your ideas!

"Shared Abilities" Blog Post

My most recent blog post at Shared Abilities is up and ready to read. Who was the Most Powerful Person with Disabilities in History?