diff --git a/sliver/mixins.py b/sliver/mixins.py
index 0039e46..41f25c7 100644
--- a/sliver/mixins.py
+++ b/sliver/mixins.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+from django.utils import six
 import json, csv
-from StringIO import StringIO
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def get_filters(self):
 
 		filters = {}
 
-		for key, value in self.request.GET.items():
+		for key, value in list(self.request.GET.items()):
 			if key not in self.filters:
 				continue
 
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ class JSONMixin(object):
 	mimetype = 'application/json'
 
 	def parse(self, data):
+		if isinstance(data, bytes):
+			return json.loads(data.decode('utf-8'))
 		return json.loads(data)
 
 	def render(self, context):
@@ -127,7 +129,7 @@ def render(self, context):
 
 class FlatFileMixin(object):
 	def parse(self, data):
-		input = StringIO(data)
+		input = six.StringIO(data)
 		reader = csv.DictReader(input, delimiter=self.get_delimiter())
 
 		data = list(reader)
@@ -136,8 +138,8 @@ def parse(self, data):
 
 
 	def render(self, context):
-		output = StringIO()
-		writer = csv.DictWriter(output, context.keys(), extrasaction='ignore', delimiter=self.get_delimiter())
+		output = six.StringIO()
+		writer = csv.DictWriter(output, list(context.keys()), extrasaction='ignore', delimiter=self.get_delimiter())
 
 		writer.writeheader()
 		writer.writerows(context)
diff --git a/sliver/views.py b/sliver/views.py
index 6cbbafd..40cdb6d 100644
--- a/sliver/views.py
+++ b/sliver/views.py
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+from django.utils import six
 from django.views.generic import View
 from django.views.generic.detail import SingleObjectMixin
 from django.views.generic.list import MultipleObjectMixin
@@ -7,7 +10,6 @@
 
 import datetime
 
-from types import NoneType
 from decimal import Decimal
 
 from django.http import HttpResponse
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@
 from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
 from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
 
-import responses
+from . import responses
 
 class Resource(View):
 	"""
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
 		#if a response exception is raised, grab it and return it to django
 		try:
 			return super(Resource, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
-		except responses.SliverResponse, r:
+		except responses.SliverResponse as r:
 			return r.response()
 
 	def get_model_class(self):
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ def hydrate(self):
 
 		model_class = self.get_model_class()
 
-		for key, val in data.items():
+		for key, val in list(data.items()):
 			#make sure it's allowed
 			if (self.fields and key not in self.fields) or key in self.exclude:
 				continue
@@ -100,8 +102,8 @@ def dehydrate_value(self, model, field):
 			val = float(val)
 
 		#if it's something we don't know about, just convert to string
-		elif not isinstance(val, (int, str, bool, NoneType)):
-			val = unicode(val)		
+		elif not isinstance(val, (int, str, bool, type(None))):
+			val = six.text_type(val)		
 
 		return val
 
@@ -183,7 +185,7 @@ def render_to_response(self, context, status=200):
 		"""
 		Out to the tubes...
 		"""
-		return HttpResponse(self.render(context), mimetype=self.get_mimetype(), status=status)
+		return HttpResponse(self.render(context), content_type=self.get_mimetype(), status=status)
 
 	def get_mimetype(self):
 		"""
@@ -217,7 +219,7 @@ def put(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
 
 		self.object = self.get_object()
 
-		for key, val in self.hydrate().items():
+		for key, val in list(self.hydrate().items()):
 			setattr(self.object, key, val)
 
 		self.object.save()