Eve Willis

Freelance writer, Journalist

United Kingdom

Recent graduate of Spanish and Political Sciences at the University of Surrey. Editor of Subcultured Magazine. Experience working for the Foreign Commonwealth Office as a student ambassador writing travel pieces, freelance research writer for Summersdale Publishers and marketing for an events agency in Barcelona.

Areas of interest include (but are no means confined to) politics, gender, the environment, travel and popular culture.

Portfolio
Madrid No Frills
06/11/2017
Meet the women fighting to dignify Spain's domestic workforce

In a leafy and affluent neighbourhood in the northern suburbs of Madrid, the school run swings around. Women dressed in maid's scrubs that are hues of clinical pink, purple and blue - rush around collecting other people's children, walk other people's dogs, take out other people's rubbish and fetch other people's groceries.

Madrid No Frills
04/20/2021
Madrid Election Talk: Gender inequality, domestic violence and reproductive rights

The pandemic hasn't affected everyone equally. In fact, it has exacerbated and deepened pre-existing inequalities. During lockdown last year, Madrid alone recorded a 37% increase in calls to its regional helpline for gender violence. Due to the pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic, women in the capital have evidently been disproportionately affected in comparison with their male counterparts.

Incite
06/21/2020
No, Removing White Supremacist Representations Of The Past Is Not "Erasing History" - Incite

Is the removal of some of our statues and memorials erasing history or simply acknowledging all parts of it? By Eve Willis The last few weeks has seen Britain, alongside America, catapulted into fierce and bitter contentions over the Black Lives Matter movement that, in the midst of a global pandemic, still mobilised thousands of activists across the country, fighting for the civil liberties promised to Black people centuries ago.

SUBCULTURED Magazine
10/26/2019
From Barcelona to Britain: An Interview with Marouane Joubba - SUBCULTURED Magazine

As I batter through the torrential rain along the South Bank, making my way to the Tate Modern, I spot Marouane in the entrance, detectable by his art-school chic look. He greets me with two kisses and immediately starts berating the English weather, as you would expect from someone who has spent the best part [...]

Subcultured Magazine
05/06/2020
Issue 6: A New Earth

As Editorial Director I was responsible for all editorial content in our sixth issue: A tribute to our relationship with the ever-changing world.

Incite
12/16/2019
Women's Sexual Healthcare Is Not Being Taken Seriously Enough - Incite

Women's easy and affordable access to sexual healthcare should be a right. And yet, many obstacles remain. By Eve Willis The names in this article are pseudonyms. If you go to your local pharmacy to get the morning after pill, not only will that cost you £25, but chances are you'll also be faced with a humiliating, unnecessary interrogation.

Incite
11/12/2018
Okupa Barcelona - Incite

Eve Willis explores the fringe political movement rooted in anarchism that has taken hold of Catalonia. By Eve Willis Anarchist, anti-globalist, and anti-tourist squatters have become emblematic of the fringe political movement rooted in anarchism that has taken hold of Catalonia. Anarchism is nothing new in Barcelona.

Thenationalstudent
Cuba Unpacked

At first glance, Havana appears to be a dystopian pastel city that evokes the nostalgia of the past with its eclectic fusion of colonial Spanish, American art deco and Soviet architecture. Yet, behind the crumbling facades of the Malecón, the strong mojitos, and 1950s' cars that pulse through the cities, Cuba is waking up to the twenty-first century with great change expected following the election of President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Pink Pangea: The Community Of Women Who Love To Travel
12/11/2019
Why You Should Travel to Ecuador Solo | Pink Pangea

Arriving in the dead of night at Mariscal Sucre, Quito's international airport, I hopped off the plane with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. Was this really a good idea, solo backpacking in Ecuador? Luckily, my jet lag and fatigue-fuelled trepidations were premature: Ecuador is the perfect place to travel solo.