About us

WHOLE is an audio-visual album, an ephemeral sensory experience crafted by the Visioners for Abortion Freedom.

The Visioners for Abortion Freedom is a collective of truth seekers and dream makers from reproductive justice leaders across the U.S. envisioning a WHOLE future that holds us all. The project is designed and facilitated by Alicia M. Walters, who is the creative director and lead content creator for W H O L E.

Together, we have crafted this gift for you, a small glimpse into the work that grounds us and seeds the possibility of a future where all are free, autonomous and connected. We have written a full vision and produced a visual album and an audio experience that bring our vision to life. We encourage you to join our rituals or create your own to make this vision real.

We invite you into this lineage of Visioners who chose in this moment to dream a world that centers Blackness, one full of love and liberation. This vision holds you in your fullness as keeper of your body. We paint communities of shared abundance. Imagine it with us.

Visioners

  • Lead Facilitator + Abortion Freedom Design Team + Lead Author + Vocalist (Bodies, Relationships, Communities, Futures)

    Alicia M. Walters is a philosopher, artist, writer, facilitator, and a culture creator who centers Blackness for individual and collective healing and transformation. She has been designing and facilitating the Abortion Freedom Visioning project, now called WholeFutures, since 2019—guiding reproductive justice Visioners in a restorative practice of dreaming the world we want. Alicia had the foresight to express that vision through the visual album, W H O L E. She is the lead author of the W H O L E vision, lead content creator and creative director of the W H O L E audio-visual experience. Alicia has spent fifteen years in social justice movements playing many roles -- organizer, policy advocate, strategic communicator, network-builder, community-based researcher, coach and consultant. Clients include ACLU, Essie Justice Group, MediaJustice, Race Forward, All* Above All, Forward Together, If/When/How, and numerous abortion funds among many others. Above all, Alicia creates things people can feel and experience. Her practice is now focused on facilitating transformative spaces that center Blackness for personal and collective liberation. When not dreaming and manifesting whole futures, Alicia creates sanctuaries for Black expression through the Black Thought Project, hastens cultural change as the Centering Blackness Fellow at the Insight Center, hosts retreats for folx who are ready to go deep, gardens, rollerskates, laughs, and enjoys time with her family and village.

  • Convener + Abortion Freedom Design Team

  • Project Manager + Abortion Freedom Design Team

  • Abortion Freedom Design Team + Co-Author (full vision) + Handpan (Bodies) + Vocalist (Communities - Rice) + Co-Author (Futures)

  • Vocalist (Trailer, Origins - monologue, Communities)

  • Co-Author (full vision)

  • Co-Author (full vision) + Vocalist (Relationships, Communities - Protein)

  • Vocalist (Trailer, Bodies - Whispers, Communities - Okra)

  • Co-Author (full vision) + Vocalist (Communities - Holy Trinity)

  • Vocalist (Trailer, Relationships, Communities - Gumbo)

  • Vocalist (Trailer, Communities - Holy Trinity)

  • Editor (full vision)

  • Editor (full vision)

  • Vocalist (Bodies)

  • Editor (full vision)

  • Visioner

  • Visioner

  • Visioner

Special Thanks To…

We want to honor and uplift all the amazing individuals who made this work possible.

  • Led by You Had Me At Black:

    Martina Abrahams Ilunga
    Executive Producer / Creator, You Had Me at Black

    Fredia Lucas
    Creative Producer + Project Manager

    Nichole Hill
    Senior Producer

    Terrell Brooke
    Sound Designer

    Ryan Alexander
    Composer / Producer (Futures Lullaby)

  • Led by Gumbo Media:

    Sierra Council
    Project Lead

    Matthew Manning
    Sierra Council
    Strategists

    Britt Julious
    Editor

    Lauren Brew
    Raeghn Draper
    Copywriters

    Tiana Buchanan
    Graphic Designer

    Olivia Moore
    UX/UI + Web Designer

    Qurissy Lopez
    Art Director

    Shefon Nachelle
    Collage Artist

    Etiti Ayeni
    Gerald Guevarra
    Matthew Manning
    Support Project Managers

  • Led by Gumbo Media:

    Zenaya “Zay” Williams
    Producer

    Zanah Thirus
    Director

    Ashley Battle
    Director of Photography

    Adia Ivey
    Production Coordinator

    Sierra Council
    Post Producer

    Candice Majors
    Editor

    Chan C. Smith
    Camera Operator

    Chan C. Smith
    Jessica Tolliver
    Assistant Camera

    Ashley O'Shay
    Gaffer

    C'airra Cortez
    Grip

    Myana Zhanè
    Production Assistant

    Raekwon Luckado
    Stills Photographer

    Coz Frimpong
    Storyboard Artist