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 people who need the world to be a little gentle with them. 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, Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit, the Guelph Sexuality Conference, ConvergeCon, and the Playground Conference. You can hear her on a whole  bunch of podcasts and read about her in articles on fun sites like Nylon, Playboy, Vice, Mashable and more

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 and her latest book In It Together: Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family will be published by Thornapple Press on March 3, 2023.