What I wish my professors knew about me...

[@Shaindl]

Thank you for this, and for making yourselves so vulnerable and putting yourselves so on display. It is seen and you are all heard.

[@ivanoech]

The indigenous people who spoke or write here wants from their teacher, understanding their culture, respect for them as individual with aspirations and ambitions , to recognize them as loving parents, sisters who care for their families, and his/her pride of being native. We as Canadians must do an effort to know more about the history of natives of Canada and not only to criticize their behavior, drunkenness or way of life. I am volunteer to READ Saskatoon and recently got a match to help a native woman to improve her writing and reading. It is my small grain of sand for what we owed them.

[@kartikayshukla6779]

I loved it

[@MsDemonism]

Anger Is good. I am angry. Use that as fuel. Use that anger for constructive growth.

[@DrTeragram]

It's important that our universities acknowledge the colonial contexts in which our coursework occurs and the impacts that oppression has on the lives of Indigenous students (and Indigenous profs). It's damaging to assume that everyone in class has access to the same privileges.

[@jessicadumas9389]

BEAUTIFUL video!!! xoxoxo Lots of love!

[@fredmartin9240]

Thought provoking.

[@Superduper666]

In college, you just need to pass the tests and hand in your assignments on time. The professors don’t need to know anything about you. Just like it is for everyone else.

[@TheBoudicca3]

This is absurd. Not people's stories - but that they want their university lecturers to know about their lives. What for? Better grades for sympathy? Professors are like employers - they are doing a job and should remain impartial to anyone's particular circumstance. And why should any particular student get better treatment because they claim 'Oh I have suffered' when no-one knows what experiences another human being has gone through? There is this trend now, especially in US universities to have safe spaces for victims of rape or child abuse or being feeling unwelcome as their transgender. The point of university is to wake up and think and be independent not to be pampered and pandered for one's indidivual circumstances. So NO. I hope that none of these professors - who have their own lives and their own problems as well as having to do their jobs, need their time wasted with these stories of woe. You don't have to go to university and if it's such a hardship then just, get a job.

[@djbutt63]

A professor is not an employer, we are taking students' money and we have a contractual obligation to learn how to teach them, any professor who takes that contract seriously welcomes insight into student lives. Universities are historically white cultural institutions whose "business as usual" has been to actively exclude indigenous voices, so they have no claim on impartiality or universality. As a non-indigenous professor I take seriously the need to adapt the way I work so that my teaching provides equal opportunity and access, and welcome this initiative that gives us valuable insight. Thank you to all in this film for sharing!

[@TheBoudicca3]

One does not 'learn how to teach them' - these are not infants or little children - they are adults going to university. They should get real and live in the real world. A professor is not a Father or a Psychiatrist. If that is what you need, don't go to University and waste everyones time

[@TheBoudicca3]

In American they have black universities just for black students. Is that how you want to go? I'd rather keep the uniformed multiculturalism we have in the UK - without all this creeping - and creepy Safe Space nonsense imported from the US

[@sierra.hascat527]

Please read the letter I've sent to you. I would like to be able to have a productive conversation because you do not seem to understand the value and importance of this amazing video, or the harmful damage, hurt and violence caused by voices like yours.

[@TheBoudicca3]

I don't see any value or importance to people demanding sympathy no. I shall bin your letter; you're just wasting my time. As for creating harmful damage - what really creates damage is people demanding some special rights for their suffering to be expressed as the expense of getting an education. That's the real tragedy. Oh, and I'm an ex-University lecturer who treated all her students exactly the same. And guess what? I was the most popular for doing so. Put that on your addendum.