Meek is currently working on a project about what she calls “consent puzzles,” ambiguous moments of sexual consent. Such moments, she argues, appear to purposefully evade clear readings on consent and blatantly resist the mantras “no means no” and “yes means yes.”
Ultimately, in her study, Meek advocates for a more nuanced approach to reading sexual consent and agency, so that we might better protect against sexual assault.
As part of this project, she recently gave her talk “Why We’re Still Confused About Consent—Rewriting Our Stories of Seduction” at TEDx Providence. and several peer reviewed essays including, “Exposing Flaws of Affirmative Consent through Contemporary American Teen Films” in Girlhood Studies, “‘It Ain’t For Children’: ‘Shame-Interest’ in the Adaptations Precious and Bastard Out of Carolina” in Literature/Film Quarterly and “Lolita Speaks: Disrupting Nabokov’s “Aesthetic Bliss” in Girlhood Studies.