When violence and harassment is reported to authorities and gets to the media it gets filtered.

Listening to Lesbians mission is to report on violence and discrimination against lesbians globally.

While this sounds like a simple task, assessing what Listening to Lesbians have been able to find in the last few years indicates that accessing news about crimes against lesbians is far from simple, with multiple barriers preventing them from being able to present a comprehensive picture of global lesbian experiences.