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18 December 2015

The Best of Bedhead 2015 – My Favorite Posts

Hey folks! I’ve spent this week in Boston completing Planned Parenthood’s Sexuality Education Certification Series – it was a tremendous experience and I highly recommend it to any of you

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02 December 2015

Seeing Ourselves in Marvel’s Jessica Jones

  TW: Abuse, rape, trauma, manipulation If you haven’t watched Jessica Jones yet be forewarned this piece is chock full of spoilers so read at your own risk. Also, consider

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19 November 2015

Oh Canada! My Weekend at Playground 2015

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  I just got back from the Playground Conference and frankly, it was pretty rad. I went to sessions about sex positive community building, ableism, erotic humiliation and a closing

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30 October 2015

Thanks For Making Me A Kinkly Sex Blogging Superhero!

    In what has become one of my favorite fall traditions, the superstars over at Kinkly.com have released their Top 100 Sex Blogging Superheroes list and I am, once again a grateful

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23 October 2015

I’m Talking About Sex and Depression for Bitch!

Imagine for a moment that I took away your ability to enjoy sex. It’s just gone. Now in order to get it back, you would have to declare that you

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02 October 2015

What Mentally Ill Looks Like

I had planned on writing about sex this week (you know, like a sex writer) but then my state was hit with a tragedy yesterday. Another shooter, another school, another round

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24 September 2015

Calling People “Crazy” is Lazy, Do This Instead!

Recently I’ve been involved in several conversations about people who were, well, treating other people terribly. In all cases the subjects of the conversations had long track records of this behavior and

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10 September 2015

Starting the Conversation – #SFSMonster at Woodhull

Want to hear about my general experience at Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit? Check out Raising My Voice as Quietly as Possible- Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit It’s been almost a month since

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01 September 2015

Raising My Voice As Quietly As Possible – Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit

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It’s taken me some time to sit down and write this and when considering why I realized that Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit hit me like a ton of bricks… in

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21 July 2015

I’m Heading To Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit!

In less than a month I’ll be packing my bags and heading clear across the country to Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit. If you don’t know what that is, go check it

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About JoEllen

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.

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