Study to fight for equility or study art?

Hi everyone! Just saying my english won’t be perfect as I am French, sorry about that!

I applied for a criminology degree in London, but I recently changed my mind because I want to fight for equility. Inequilities always made me upset regardless of the scale or perpective, so I’ve been trying to find a course who allows me to study about the world history/situation from all angles. I found the ‘BA International Development’ which is available in the same university where I applied for (UEL).

I want to focus my knowledges on inequalities and discriminations, to be able to fight them, so my question is will this course allows me to follow this path? I can’t find anything else and its driving me crazy.

BUT, I’ve been doing art on the side for years, and I’m now willing to start again, I recently bought a lot of quality materials and I started my “business” (or whatever you want to call it) on the Internet (instagram etc.) to sell my art and already got good feedback and orders (which I did not except at all) I’m mostly doing art on fabric, like designing tee shirts with fabric paints and markers aswell as drawing and painting on canvas, mural painting, chalkboards... and the more I do, the more I want to create, improve my skills, get into new things like sewing to be able to make my own clothes… So now I start wondering, why not studying something artistic ?

The thing is, I’m really interested in both, but I know “fighting for equility” will take me a lot of times due to the amount of studies, essays etc., I am also a self taught person so I believe I won’t neccesary need to go to school to do art.

My question now is, Is it possible to build a network in art and get strong skills as much as someone who went to art school if I got the motivation? Will I be able to manage my business and my studies on the long term?

I’m also scared that I might miss something if I study one or the other…My brain just never stops, its never enough.

So I’m really confused, I’m doing uni in September and I don’t even know what I want to study…

Any advices? I need help.

Thank you so much!!!