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This panel is about a forthcoming book to be published in May 2023. This volume provides a diverse collection of the complexities, challenges, spaces of resistance, and possibilities faculty, specifically Black, Indigenous and racialized faculty encounter while teaching for antiracism in Canadian teacher education programs. Although many teacher education programs across Canada are attempting to infuse preservice programs with diversity, equity and inclusive pedagogies, much of these approaches reinforce the hegemony of whiteness and white privilege as status quo in teacher education rooted in narratives of multiculturalism and performative acts of solidarity without much analysis rooted in access to power and opportunities. This collection recentres the voices, lived experiences, and complexities of faculty members, in particular, Black, Indigenous and other racialized faculty carrying out antiracist pedagogies in preservice teacher education programs across Canada. Despite increasing demographic diversity across Canada, teacher education programs, faculty as well as the teaching profession itself has not kept pace with such changes and remain overwhelmingly White, middle-class and heteronormative. In this panel discussion, various authors will discuss their chapter in the book.