diff --git a/fixtures/sudo_testutils.py b/fixtures/sudo_testutils.py
index 577994409d24..7b3a7b781c50 100644
--- a/fixtures/sudo_testutils.py
+++ b/fixtures/sudo_testutils.py
@@ -1,22 +1,27 @@
-from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser, User
+from typing import Any
+
+from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
+from django.http import HttpRequest
 from django.test import RequestFactory, TestCase
 
+from sentry.users.models.user import User
+
 
 class BaseTestCase(TestCase):
-    def setUp(self):
+    def setUp(self) -> None:
         self.request = self.get("/foo")
-        self.request.session = {}
+        self.request.session = self.client.session
         self.setUser(AnonymousUser())
 
-    def get(self, *args, **kwargs):
+    def get(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> HttpRequest:
         return RequestFactory().get(*args, **kwargs)
 
-    def post(self, *args, **kwargs):
+    def post(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> HttpRequest:
         return RequestFactory().post(*args, **kwargs)
 
-    def setUser(self, user):
+    def setUser(self, user: AnonymousUser | User) -> None:
         self.user = self.request.user = user
 
-    def login(self, user_class=User):
+    def login(self, user_class: type[User] = User) -> None:
         user = user_class()
         self.setUser(user)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3481d666bacb..273dc8da4404 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -444,7 +444,6 @@ module = [
     "fixtures.sdk_crash_detection.crash_event_dotnet",
     "fixtures.sdk_crash_detection.crash_event_native",
     "fixtures.sdk_crash_detection.crash_event_react_native",
-    "fixtures.sudo_testutils",
     "fixtures.vsts",
     "sentry",
     "sentry.__main__",