Anohni of Antony and The Johnsons said that she will not attend the Oscars, despite earning a nomination for Best Original Song for “Manta Ray,” from the documentary Racing Extinction.

While the Academy has invited The Weeknd to perform “Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey, Lady Gaga to sing The Hunting Ground’s “‘Til It Happens To You” and Sam Smith to sing Spectre’s “Writing’s On The Wall,” Anohni was not invited to perform “Manta Ray,” which was written with J. Ralph. David Lang’s “Simple Song #3” from Youth will also not be performed. Dave Grohl, who isn’t even nominated, will perform though.

Anohni, who said that she is the only transgendered performer to earn an Oscar nomination, wrote on her website that she waited for an invitation to perform, but the call never came.

She wrote:

“My anxiety increased as weeks passed. I slowly realized that the positive implication of this nomination was being retracted. The producers seemed to have decided to stage performances only by the singers who were deemed commercially viable Composer David Lang’s song “Simple Song #3” performed by South Korean soprano Sumi Jo was also omitted.

“It was degrading to watch the articles in Variety, The Daily Telegraph, Pitchfork, Stereogum, etc. start to appear. Eclipsing earlier notices of congratulations, now the papers were naming me as one of two artists to have been “cut” by the Academy due to “time constraints”. In the next sentence it was announced that Dave Grohl, not nominated in any category, had been added to the list of performers.”

The artist wrote that she could not bring herself to attend the Academy nominees events in Los Angeles. She later stressed that she does not believe being transgendered is the reason why she was not invited and understands that she is not well known in the U.S.

“I want to be clear — I know that I wasn’t excluded from the performance directly because I am transgendered. I was not invited to perform because I am relatively unknown in the U.S., singing a song about ecocide, and that might not sell advertising space. It is not me that is picking the performers for the night, and I know that I don't have an automatic right to be asked.”

Anohni finished her statement with this:

“So I have decided not to attend the Academy Awards this election year. I will not be lulled into submission with a few more well manufactured, feel-good ballads and a bit of good old fashioned T. and A. They are going to try to convince us that they have our best interests at heart by waving flags for identity politics and fake moral issues. But don't forget that many of these celebrities are the trophies of billionaire corporations whose only intention it is to manipulate you into giving them your consent and the last of your money. They have been paid to do a little tap dance to occupy you while Rome burns. These are the last days of a great American fake-out sponsored by Exxon Mobile, Walmart, Amazon, Google and Phillip Morris. America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.”

You can read the entirety of Anohni’s statement here.