As a team consisting of two Black and one South Asian educator, we will unpack our experiences of working with difficult knowledges in higher education spaces. In this conversation, we will focus predominantly on our experiences of teaching pre-service teachers in the Faculty of Education through anti-racist, anti-colonial and other critical pedagogies. We will explore the divergent responses to such pedagogies, including the resistance to redefining which and whose knowledges matter and understanding epistemological positionings as they relate with dominant knowledges (Liou & Cutler, 2021).