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Podcast: Howie Severino Presents
Episode: [VIDEO] "I feel survivor's guilt" – Z Saldua, Palestinian-Filipina beauty queen
Description: Zahra Bianca "Z" Saldua was second runner-up in the Miss World Philippines pageant in 2013 and living a beauty queen's life with hosting gigs and product sponsorships.But after the war in Israel erupted on October 7, she stopped posting about products and devoted herself to the Palestinian cause. The child of an OFW and a Palestinian woman who met in Kuwait, Z is the product of two diasporas who said she joined beauty pageants to have a larger platform for what she cared about. She's endured online hate for her views and suffers from what she says...