Bradford students won a category in Digital Entrepreneur Awards but wanted to protest about burlesque dancers at eventStudents from Bradford University have handed back a prize following a “sexist and inappropriate” awards ceremony that featured dancers in corsets. The Bradford team was nominated in the Digital Entrepreneur Awards, described as the UK’s longest-standing national technology awards. Mark Garratt, the university’s external affairs director, said: “There was a compere making sexist jokes and a bunch of burlesque dancers on stage. The whole ceremony didn’t sit comfortably with what, as a university, we are trying to promote.”Emma Bridge, who also attended the event with the Bradford University team, told the Manchester Evening News she felt “very uncomfortable” at the ceremony. “Why would the organisers decide that an all-female burlesque performance group would be the correct choice for a still largely male demographic of the Digital Entrepreneurship Awards.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2017 01:25 UTC