A school librarian from Louisiana is suing two men for defamation after they accused her of wanting to keep “pornographic” material in the kids’ section at a parish library.

Why it matters: The librarian, Amanda Jones, is one of the first to fight back against accusations made against teachers and educators regarding LGBTQ materials.

Driving the news: Jones, president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, filed the lawsuit Wednesday, arguing that two men, Michael Lunsford and Ryan Thames, falsely accused her of being a pedophile who wanted to teach children about anal sex, NBC News reports.

• The lawsuit points to the Citizens for a New Louisiana Facebook page, which has criticized “anti-censorship folks” who didn’t want to shift any “sexually explicit and erotic materials targeting eight to ten-year-olds” to the adult section of libraries.
• Jones became a specific target for the group, who said she was “fighting so hard to keep sexually erotic and pornographic […]