The article considers the intersectionality issue – its potential for contemporary research and its status among other theoretical propositions. The author presents in her text the history of the analyzed concept, as well as the main theoretical directions of it and also asks for its use in the future. Intersectionality is considered in the paper in relation to feminist theory, theories of multiculturalism, ethnographic research, and to legal discussions. The author also cites the main originators and researchers of intersectionality: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Johanna Kantola and Nousiainen Kevät, Kathy Davis