Pulling Down Your Pants

Pulling Down Your Pants shatters the polished myths of girlhood to reveal the raw, painful truths hiding in backseats, bedrooms, and bathrooms with the door locked. This isn’t fiction. These are real stories, collected over nine years, told in voices so vivid they break your heart and demand your attention.

Within these pages, you’ll encounter young women navigating crushing betrayals: a teenage crush that turns into a nightmare behind closed doors; a promising girl swallowed by addiction; a woman spiked and assaulted, her trauma ripped from her private pain and blasted across social media, igniting an online scandal with thousands watching and judging; another trapped by multiple men, her horror captured on video and passed like poison through school halls.

Chantelle Dougadir, a survivor and care leaver herself, writes with a voice that is both raw and defiant.

A fearless blend of poetic vulnerability and brutal honesty. This book is a reckoning with shame passed down like an heirloom, the loneliness that isolates, and the fierce fight to reclaim power and voice.

For writers, Pulling Down Your Pants is more than a collection of stories. It’s a masterclass in blending lyrical prose with urgent social truth, showing how to confront trauma with empathy and unyielding courage.

If you want to read and write stories that refuse to look away, that challenge and move, and that stay with you long after the last page, this book is for you.