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Iris Jones is a biracial woman who was born on January 31, 2005 to Mother Laura Jones and Father Mike Jones in Houston, Tx. Iris are up in a biracial household with a white mother and a black father. When she was 15, she wrote and self published a book titled, Growing Up Iris: My Shared Experiences Growing Up a Biracial Female In A Multicultural Household. In interviews, Iris describes her book as ''"the journey to finding herself in a society that wouldn't." "I thought I was white when I was younger. I thought if it wasn't white, it wasn't right. I thought Black was ugly because society made me think that way. All the white Disney princesses and superheroes made me think that way. Society portrays white as the superior race, so that every little black boy and girl out there thinks that they are less than. I would know, because I was one of those little girls."'' Iris states in her book and several interviews that she had trouble accepting herself due to underrepresentation of black people in society. Her book Growing Up Iris is available on Amazon at this link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D4Y2967/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Ai5fFb6J6HPYE?fbclid=IwAR0-vSkbB79qA-U7CyDOVQ7VH3ZkxuObRlEWGmZBoKispC7d2n_kck2ugkM. Around the time Iris Released her book, she was accepted into the University of North Texas as a high achieving High school student. She now attends full time college.