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27 September 2026 Week 30
Deniz’s First Team
I went to a match of Stockport County, the team of Stockport, where I have lived for six years. I came home with more than a football match, and with a blue kit in size 12–18 months.
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24 September 2026 Week 29
Let There Be Hope
What went through my mind while carrying the suitcases of a mother with a baby in the passport queue at Bonn Airport: being a Turk in Europe, being a father, and the small kindnesses I want to teach my son.
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18 September 2026 Week 28
It’s Not the Birth I’m Afraid Of
The videos I started making to learn the vocabulary of birth introduced me to a circle of midwives. The more I learned, the more my view of birth changed: now I can’t wait to witness it.
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8 September 2026 Week 27
The Missing Frame
At the weekend I was on what might be my last camping trip without a child. Two dads, two sons, and the thing that was missing from that frame.
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2 September 2026 Week 26
Memories and Algorithms
An Instagram account that began as a memory archive turned, a few videos in, into a strange reckoning between the algorithm and parenting.
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25 August 2026 Week 25
Missing What Hasn’t Happened Yet
Can a person miss someone they’ve never met, someone they don’t share a single memory with?
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22 August 2026 Week 24
Yarenlik: Good Company
I want to be neither his close friend nor his mate. If I can offer him yarenlik, that’s enough.
