‘I’ve been called groomer, pervert, creep’: teachers and banned authors on fighting this year’s ‘ed scare’

Facing book bans and laws like Florida's don't say gay' measure, educators describe threats against them - and what keeps them going

A fifth-grade teacher who showed her class a Disney film. A children's book author whose graphic novel about a Boy Scout shot to the top of the banned books list. A 27-year veteran of Florida's public school system who was accused of Marxist" indoctrination of his students for teaching an AP African American history class.

These are some of the people with livelihoods threatened by what's been called the ed scare" - a coordinated attempt by conservative-backed groups like Moms for Liberty and Citizens Defending Freedom to prohibit instruction about race, sexuality and gender in US public education.