It is the authors first day of class in a new tenure-track position. She is a sociologist who had been hired to teach Women's Studies at the University of Calgary, where she completed her master's degree some years before. At 9:00 a.m. she boarded the elevator in the basement of the building. The elevator stops on the main floor and the doors open to reveal a television set surrounded by people. The last time a television was set up in the foyer was during the Gulf War in her grad student days. Through the crowd she sees the caption at the bottom of the screen: "America under Attack." The doors close, she continues up. The date was September 11, 2001. In this article, she shares what tools, as a feminist sociologist, she brought to the classroom to help her students think through a situation that seemed, at least at first, incomprehensible.