diff --git a/django/utils/functional.py b/django/utils/functional.py
index 6118c108ef084..ab0be502ce074 100644
--- a/django/utils/functional.py
+++ b/django/utils/functional.py
@@ -4,15 +4,6 @@
 from functools import total_ordering, wraps
 
 
-# You can't trivially replace this with `functools.partial` because this binds
-# to classes and returns bound instances, whereas functools.partial (on
-# CPython) is a type and its instances don't bind.
-def curry(_curried_func, *args, **kwargs):
-    def _curried(*moreargs, **morekwargs):
-        return _curried_func(*args, *moreargs, **{**kwargs, **morekwargs})
-    return _curried
-
-
 class cached_property:
     """
     Decorator that converts a method with a single self argument into a
diff --git a/docs/releases/3.0.txt b/docs/releases/3.0.txt
index 4de12e3895b02..daf7352510648 100644
--- a/docs/releases/3.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/3.0.txt
@@ -272,6 +272,9 @@ Django 3.0, we're removing these APIs at this time.
   ``six.python_2_unicode_compatible()`` if you still need Python 2
   compatibility.
 
+* ``django.utils.functional.curry()`` - Use :func:`functools.partial` or
+  :class:`functools.partialmethod`. See :commit:`5b1c389603a353625ae1603`.
+
 Miscellaneous
 -------------