Dana S. Belu is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, where she teaches in the Philosophy Department and in The Women’s Studies Department. She is the author of Heidegger, Reproductive Technology & The Motherless Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and of numerous publications on feminist phenomenologies of reproduction. Her latest article ‘Thinking about Mothers Thinking: Maternal Authenticity in Ruddick and Heidegger’ is forthcoming in The Question of Gender in Being and Time, edited by Patricia Glazebrook and Suzanne Claxton (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024), https://www. csudh.edu/philosophy/faculty/dana-belu. Professor Belu serves as an Associate Editor for csuglobal, an online and interdisciplinary journal that interfaces the California State University system with California and with the globe, https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/ csuglobaljournal/