Meijer was born in Eindhoven in 1949,[1] and gained her doctorate cum laude from Utrecht University in 1988 with a thesis entitled De lust tot lezen(Lust/zest for reading).

[2] She then worked for ten years at the same university, where she led the post graduate women's studies doctoral students.

In 1972 Meijer was one of the founders of the lesbian feminist action group Purple September, a spin-off from Dolle Mina.

Her book "The Defiant Muse" dealt with the history of "Dutch and Flemish Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present" and it included extracts of poetry as well as biographies of the poets.

[5] Meijer was a contributor of biographies to the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture published in 2006.