Photos

Credit- Gene Reed

Credit – Gene Reed

Credit- Gene Reed

Credit – Gene Reed

Credit- Gene Reed

JoEllen Notte on Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

JoEllen holding a white t-shirt with red rings around the neck and sleeves and a red vibrator design

2013

JoEllen standing behind a microphone that reads "Sex Out Loud"

2013-2014

Two women standing in front of a large red neon sign reading "Sex is Back"

JoEllen and Jennifer Pritchett in front of Smitten Kitten in Minneapolis

Woman on her stomach on a bed writing in a notebook, her feet and the wrought-iron headboard visible in the background. The photo is black and white but her hair is bright red.

Three redhead women- JoEllen, Elle Chase, and Sunny Megatron

JoEllen sitting in a window holding a small black and white dog

JoEllen in brown glasses posing with a woman with white hair

5 women posing at a party: JoEllen, Elle Chase, Nina Hartley, Ashley Manta, Kali Morgan

2012-2013

Two women - one brunette and one redhead- in front of bookshelves in a sex shop

JoEllen wearing brown glasses and posing with a small beige dog with an underbite

A video camera in the foreground filming JoEllen, in the background.

JoEllen sitting in a car wearing brown glasses and a white t-shirt with red rings on the sleeves and neck and a red vibrator design on the front

A woman with red hair, a man with a goatee, and a woman with pink hair sitting behind a table for a panel discussion

JoEllen in a purple shirt, with purple nails, holding a glass butt plug with a purple tail

Woman lying on a bed with her legs up on the wrought iron headboard as she writes in a notebook. The top of her head is facing the camera. The photo is black and white and her hair is bright red.

2015-2016

JoEllen taking a selfie in bed, wearing a t-shirt that reads "tough, proud, brave, free, Boston"

Two women, both redheads, pose on a small stage in a sex shop

Three women - one brunette and two redheads- standing together in a restaurant.

JoEllen in red glasses holding a curved wooden dildo

Four women: Dirty Lola, JoEllen, Tristan Taormino, and Elle Chase

JoEllen wearing a name badge for the Playground Conference

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JoEllen posing with a badge reading "speaker"

Man and woman sitting behind microphones

JoEllen teaching in front of a screen featuring a picture of her dog kissing her

Three redheaded women posed together: Amy Jo Goddard, JoEllen, and Sunny Megatron

JoEllen Notte and Stephen Biggs speaking about Sex and Depression at Woodhull's 2016 Sexual Freedom Summit

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JoEllen in a purple and black dress speaking on stage

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.