JoEllen Notte

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Doin’ it to the Beat: Sexy 90s R&B Edition

One of my favorite blogs is The Mamasutra on The Buzz (Good Vibrations’ Online Magazine). Recently she did this great post about Tennessee’s “Gateway Sexual Activities” law which restricts teachers, when

Ms. T – I pity the fool who messes with my IUD

On July 1st 2011 after years of changing prescriptions, screwed up refills and weird emotional side-effects I bid the world of hormonal birth control adieu and rolled out my

Dr. Foreskin or: How You Can Learn To Stop Worrying and Love the Hood

Several of my friends have never seen one, a few live in fear of encountering one and one refuses to have any interactions with them at all. I am referring

Get up, Stand up: The one where I feel ways about stuff

Truth be told, I had planned to keep it light for the first post but the world disagreed so, here we go. Perusing the news this morning I was greeted

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JoEllen Notte is a writer, speaker, and mental health advocate whose work explores the impact of depression on sex and relationships. Since 2012 she has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken here at The Redhead Bedhead.

JoEllen has led workshops nationwide on sexual communication, navigating consent, having casual sex kindly, and dating as an introvert. She has toured sex shops, spoken at length on dildos, and even started a sex school but she is happiest and most effective when writing and speaking on behalf of quiet people who have sex. Check out her video series on attending conferences as an introvert and her extensive writing on sex and depression.

JoEllen has spoken at Clark College, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, the Guelph Sexuality Conference, Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit, and the Playground Conference

JoEllen’s first book The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression & The Conversation We Aren’t Having was published by Thorntree Press in March 2020. Her new book In It Together: Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family was published by Thornapple Press in March 2023.