Kim Petras Performance of "Future Starts Now" at the 2021 VMAs blew everyone away!

Kim Petras gave a shout-out to sex workers arriving at the VMA in a latex suit. 

 Kim Petras Performance of "Future Starts Now" at the 2021 VMAs preshow blew everyone away. But it also left everyone wondering why wasn't she on the main stage? Well, will be given the response she received for her first appearance at VMA it is almost assured this risk-taker will be an award winner in no time at all. 

 One person commented,"A Kim Petras tem tudo pra ser uma artista enorme, sem falar que essa música dela é nostálgica e virou hit semanas atrás assim que saiu no Spotify e agora olha ela aí na pré-apresentação"! 

 "Why wasn’t she on the main stage? I truly believe she was better than a lot of performers there tonight… She deserves a Grammy for Clarity. I’ve been listening to that album over and over for three days," another said.

This was the transgender superstar's first appearance at the VMAs. She might not be as well known but given her energy and talent, she has nowhere to go but up!

Transgender woman of color Disaya Monaee Smith shot and killed in Chicago

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At 4:00 am on Sept. 6 police responding to a report of gunfire at the Prestige Inn and Suites at 1335 E. Sibley Blvd found transgender woman Disaya Monaee Smith suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Smith was pronounced dead a little after 5 a.m. at Franciscan Health hospital in Hammond.
Detectives are investigating the incident, and no one was in custody as of Tuesday morning, Dolton Police Chief Robert Collins said.

“We mourn the loss of Disaya Monaee Smith,” National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) Deputy Executive Director Victoria Kirby York said in a statement. “2021 is on track to be the deadliest year on record for transgender and non-binary people – and in Chicago, Disaya Monaee Smith’s killing marks the fourth transgender person to be murdered in the Chicago region this year alone. Illinois, 

Dolton, and county police departments must do more to proactively prevent the continued loss of trans lives happening across their city,” said York.

It took a period of time to learn of her murder as the only news source to report on it, by no fault of their own, misgendered and deadnamed Smith.

The Remembering Our Dead project reports that Disaya Monaee Smith is the 6th person to be murdered in the Greater Chicago area and the 65th transgender person to have needlessly died in the US since Nov. 20, 2020, the last Transgender Day of Remembrance. 

 
Public visitation will be held on Monday, September 13, 2021, from 3pm to 7pm at the Higgins Funeral Home.


A balloon release and vigil was held on September 8.