Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Meagan Solomon gave a guest lecture in Dr. Jackie Cuevas’ course, “Survive and Thrive: LGBTQ UT,” at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Solomon’s lecture was based on her published article “Tejano Drag Kings: Reclaiming Space, Place, and Culture Through Performance,” which Dr. Cuevas assigned for the class.

Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Meagan Solomon published the collaborative article “Latina/e Lesbian Archival Praxis and Memory Work: A Plática/Roda de Conversa with Malflora Collective” in the Journal of Lesbian Studies. Co-authored with fellow Malflora Collective members Melissa Aslo de la Torre, Mariana Meriqui Rodrigues, Guadalupe Ortega, Anahí Ponce, and Alexandra Nichole Salazar, the article examines nontraditional and community-based archival practices among Latina/e lesbians and explores memory work as a form of collective, cultural, and decolonial praxis. The article can be read here.

Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Meagan Solomon and psychology major and feminist studies minor Karla Vazquez ’26 attended the 2026 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Conference in San Antonio. They attended many illuminating sessions that bridged Chicanx studies, feminism, and anti-imperialist praxis, including workshops on Chicanx-Palestine solidarity and Chicana feminist zine-making.

Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Meagan Solomon attended the 2025 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Borikén) from November 13–16. She presented on a roundtable titled “Archiving Malflora: Latina/e Lesbian Memory Work as Decolonial Praxis,” along with four other members of Malflora Collective, her collaborative PEH project focused on preserving Latina/e lesbian histories. The roundtable focused on creative strategies for archiving community stories through zine-making, podcasting, and digital archival practices, while also contending with the fraught nature of online platforms.

Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies Meagan Solomon published a peer-reviewed article, titled “Tejano Drag Kings: Reclaiming Space, Place, and Culture Through Performance,” in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, a top feminist studies journal. This article theorizes Tejano drag king performance as a critical source of resistance to state repression and cisheteronormative cultural standards. While drag kings in general, and Latino drag kings in particular, remain marginalized subjects in popular drag discourse, this article spotlights the work of Tejano drag kings and theorizes how their embodied performance and parody of masculinity serves as a vessel for feminist worldmaking. The article can be accessed here.