Future Women's History Month: Aparna Nancherla Finds Laughs in the Darkness

Fuse is celebrating Women's History Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Women's History before our eyes. Today we're paying tribute to Aparna Nancherla, the comedian who in 2016 gave us her debut album Just Putting It Out There, the first release on fellow stand-up Tig Notaro’s Bentzen Ball Records.

Nancherla was born to parents from Hyderabad, South India and grew up near Washington, D.C. Her comedy is as apt to target quotidian, absurdist observations as it is to skewer misogyny and racism. Nancherla lives with depression and anxiety and speaks on these topics eloquently and prolifically both onstage and off, telling Splitsider last year that "introversion and social anxiety are two things that very much are tenterhooks on which my personality is suspended."