This article examines how intersectional perspectives can contribute to a deeperunderstanding of the operations of power in a context of sanitary crisis whiledelivering a reflection on the theoretical premises and political potential of theseperspectives in the historic situation we are experiencing. The central argumentis that intersectional approaches not only help us understand the differentiatingimpact of sanitary measures on the structural inequalities that construct the so-cial order, but they also allow us to identify how this order can be transgressed,resisted and negotiated in a crisis situation