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Demonstrating Resilience in the Face of Adversity: An Embedded Phenomenological Case Study of the Magic City Acceptance Academy
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Matthew Fifolt; D. Keith Gurley; Dwayne White – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
Our research team explored a political campaign that targeted the Magic City Acceptance Academy (MCAA) as the 'first transgender public school in the South'. Located near Birmingham, Alabama, MCAA opened in fall 2021 as one of the first LGBTQ + affirming charter schools in the United States. In spring 2022, gubernatorial candidate Tim James…
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