diff --git a/drfpasswordless/serializers.py b/drfpasswordless/serializers.py
index 6ce1523..233b55f 100644
--- a/drfpasswordless/serializers.py
+++ b/drfpasswordless/serializers.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import logging
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied
 from django.core.validators import RegexValidator
diff --git a/tests/test_verification.py b/tests/test_verification.py
index 179c4de..16a0464 100644
--- a/tests/test_verification.py
+++ b/tests/test_verification.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from rest_framework import status
 from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 from rest_framework.test import APITestCase
 from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
 from django.urls import reverse